'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎3] (674/1024)

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of the Empire of the M O G O L,
oi Gentiles. He alio hearkened of late very willingly to the Reverend Father Bukee &
Jefuit, and began very well to relilh what he fuggefted. Yet there are fome who fay*
that at the bottom he was void of all Rxligion, and that whatever he pretended in it,
was only for curiofity, or, as others fay, out of policy, to make himfelf beloved by the
Chriftians, who are pretty numerous in his Artillery i but above all, to gain the Affedii-
on of the Rajas^ or Soveraign Gentiles, that were Tributary to the Empire, and to
make them of his party upon occafion. Mean time, this hath not much furthered his
Affairs, on the contrary, it will appear in the fequel of this Hiftory, that the pretence
ufed by Aureng-Zebe , his third Brother, to cut off his head, was, that he was turned
Kafer, that is to fay, an Infidel, of no Religion, an Idolater.
Sultan Sujah, the fecond Brother, was much of the humor of Vara, but he was
more clofe and more fetled, and had better condudf and dexterity. He was fit to ma
nage an Intrigue well, and he made, under-hand, Friends, by the force of Prefents,
which he heaped upon the great Omrahs, and principally upon the moh powerful Rajas,
as Jeffornfeigne, and fome others ? bur he did fomewhat too much indulge his pleafures,
inentertaining an extraordinary number of Women, among whom wheft he was , he
fpent whole days and nights in drinking, finging, and dancing. He made them Pre
fents of very rich Apparel i and heencreafed or leffened their Peniions according as the
fancy took him: By which kind of life his Affairs did languifh, and the Affections of ma
ny of his People cooled. He caff himfelf into the Religion of the Berfians, although
Chah-Jeban^ his Father, and all his Brothers, were of the Turkifh. Tis known that
Mabumetanifm is divided into feveral Sects, which made that famous Checksady. Au
thor of the Gouliftan, fay in Verfe, which is to this effect inProfe, lam aDervicb
Drinker, I feem to be without Religion, and I am known of fixty two Sefts. But of all
thofe Sects there are two principal ones, whofe Partifans are mortal Enemies to one ano
ther. The one is that of the furhs-, whom the call that is, Sectators
of Ofman\ they believing that tis he that was the true and lawful Succeflor of Maho
met, the Great Caliph or Soveraign Prieft, to whom alone it did appertain to interpret
the Alcoran, aud to decide the Controverfies to be met with in the Law. The other is
that of the Perjians, whom the 7 »rJy , call Chios, Rafezys, Aly-Merdans, that is, Se6fa-
ries, Hereticks, Partifans of Aly, becaufe they believe, contrary to the belief of the
Eurks, that this Succeflion and Pontifical Authority, which I juft now intimated, was
due only to Aly theSon-in law of Mahomet. It was by reafon of State that Sultan Su-
jab had embraced this latter Sedf, confidering that all the Perjians being C^i^, and moft
of them, or their Children, having the greateft power at the Court of Mogol, and hold
ing the moft important Places of the Empire, he had moft reafon to hope, that, when
occalion ferved, they would all take his part.
Aureng-Zebe , the third Brother, had not that Gallantry, nor furprizing Prefence of
Dara, he appeared more ferious and melancholy, and was indeed much more judicious,
underftandingthe World very well,and knowing whom tochufe for hisferviceand pur-
pole, and where to'beftow his favour and bounty moft for his intereft. He was refer-
ved, crafty, and exceedingly verfed in diffembling, infomuch that for a long while he
made profeilion to be Fakire, that is, Poor, Dervich, or Devout, renouncing the World,
and feigning not to pretend at all to the Crown, but to defire to pafs his life in Prayer,
and other Devotions. In the mean time he failed not to make a Party at Court, efpe-
cially when he was made Vice-King of Decani but he did it with fo much dexterity,
art, and fecrefie, that it could hardly be perceived. He alfo had the skill to maintain
himfelf in the aftedfion of Chab-Jchan his Father, who although he much loved Vara,
could yet not forbear to Chew that he efteemed Aureng-Zebe , and judged him capable to
Feign i which caufed jealoufic enough in Vara, who began to find it, infomuch that he
could not hold from faying fometimes to his Friends in private, Of all my Brothers I
apprehend only this Nemazi, that is, this Bigot, this great Praying-man.
Morad-Bakche, the youngeft of all, was the leaft dextrous, and the leaft judicious.
He cared for nothing but mirth and paftime, to drink, hunt, andfhoot. Yet he had
fome good qualities, for he was very civil and liberal» he gloried in it, that he kept no-
thing fecret ^ he defpifed Cabals \ and he braggM openly, that he trufted only in his
Ann and Sword : In fhort, he was very Brave, and if th:s Bravery had been accompanied
lv ah fome condudf, he would have carried the Bell from all his Brothers,and been King
fct Indofan, as will appear in what is to follow.
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