'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.' [‎48] (719/1024)

The Hiftory of the Empire
It was at this time, upon the departure of the Perfian Ambaffador, that Aunng.
Zebt received with that admirable wifdom his Tutor M^//^*^/^theHihory of which
is rare and confiderable. This old man, who long fince had retired himfelf towards
Cabouf and fetled himfelf on fome Lands, which CM-had given him, had no
fooner heard of the great fortune of Aureng-Zebe his Difcipline, who had overcome
Vara and all his other Brothers, and was now King of Indoftan 3 but hfe came in hafte
to the Court, fwelled with hopes of being prefently advanced tonolefs than the digni
ty of an Omrab. He maketh his Court, and endeavors to engage all his Friends, and
Raucbenara- Begum Courteous or formal title for (usually Muslim) women of elite status, especially of Turko-Mongol lineage. , the King’s Sifter, employs her felf for him. But yet there pafs
three whole Months, that Aunng-Zebe does not fo much as feem to look upon him i
till at length wearied to have him always at his Elbow, and before his Face, he fent
for him to a place apart, where there was no body but Hakim-lul-Moithih 3 Danech-
mend-kan, and three or four of thofe Omrahs, that pretend to Science, and then fpoke
to him to this effed: C as I was informed by my Agab. )
What is it you would have of me Doctor ? Can you reafonably deftre I Jhould makg
you one of tbe chief Omrahs of my Court? Let me tell you, if you had injimfied me as
you jhould have done 3 nothing would he more jufi: For lam of thisperfipafion^ that a Child
well educated and intruded 3 is as much, at lea(l , obliged to his Mailer as to bis Father:
But where are thofe good Documents you have given me ? In the firfi place you have taught
me, that all that Frangiftan ( fo it feems they call Europe ) was nothing , but 1 tyoro
not what little Ifland, of which the greatefi King was he of Portugal, and next to him he of
Holland, and after him he <?/England i and as to the other Kings, as thofe 0/France and
Andalufia? you have reprefented them to me as our petty Raja’s j telling me, that the Kings
of Indoftan were far above them all together, and that they were the true and only Houma-
jons, the Ekbars, the Jehan-Guyres, the Chah-Jehans, the Fortunate ones, the Great
ones, the Conquerors and Kings of the World i and that Perfia and Usbec , Kach-
guer, Tartar and Catay, Pegu, China, and Matchina did tremble at the name of the
Kings of Indoftan : Admirable Geography l Tou jhould rather have taught m exactly to
diftingmjh all theft different States of the world, and well to underjiand theirfirength,
their way of fighting, their Cujloms, Religions, Governments and Interefis'■> and by the per-
ufal of folid Hiftory, toobferve their Rife, Progrefs, Decay, and whence, how, and by what
accidents and errors, thofe great Changes and Revolutions of Empires and Kingdoms have
happened, I have fcarce learnt of you the name of my Grandjires > the famous founders of
this Empire i fo far were you from having taught me the Hiftory of their Life, and what
courfe they too\ to make fitch great Conquefts. Tou had a mind to teach me the Arabian
Tongue, to read and to write, I am much obliged to you ( forfooth ) for having made me lofe
fo much time upon a Language,that requires ten or twelve years to attain to its perfeftiotr, as
if the Son of a King jhould thin\it to be an honour to him, to be a Grammarian, or jome
Doftor of the Law, and to learn other Languages than thofe of his Neighbors,when he can
not well be without them j he, to whom Time vs fo precious for fo many weighty things,which
he ought by times to team. As if there were any jpirit that did not with fome reluttancy,
and even with a kind of debafiment, employ it felf in fo fad and dry an exercife, fo longfotn
and tedious, as is that of learning words, .
Thbs fadi Aureng-Zebe refent the pedantidt Inftrudtions of his Tutor > to which tis
affirmed in that dourt, that after fome Entertainment which he had with others, he
further added the following Reproof. ..
c Know you not, that Childhood well govern’d, being a ftate which is ordinarily
c accompanied with an happy memory, is capable of thoufands of good Precepts an
1 Inftru&ions, which remain deeply imprefled the whole remainder of a man’s life, an
‘ keep the mind always raifed for great A&ions ? The Law, Prayers, and Sciences, may
c they not as well be learned in our Mother-Tongue, as in Arabic}^ ? You told my ra-
c ther Cbah-Jehan, that you would teach me Philofophy. 3 Tis true, I remember very
c well, that you have entertain’d me for many years with airy queftions, of things 11a
‘ afford no fatisfa&ion at all to the mind, and are of no ufe in humane Society, empty
‘ Notions, and meer Phancies, that have only this in them, that they are very har to
c underftand, and very eafie to forget, which are only capable to tire and fpoil a goo
c underftanding, and to breed an Opinion that is infupportable. I ftill remember, t a
c after you had thus amufed me, I know not how long, with your fine Philofopny, a
‘ I retained of iti was a multitude of barbarous and dark words, proper to bewi er,