'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.' [‎51] (722/1024)

Thethat though Aureng-Zebe made Ch ah-Jeh an his Father, to be kept in the
Fortrefsof Agra with all imaginable care and caution * yet notwithhanding he ftill
left him in his old Apartment with Begum Courteous or formal title for (usually Muslim) women of elite status, especially of Turko-Mongol lineage. -SahebJnis eldeft Daughter, his other Women,
Singers, Dancers, Cooks, and others, nothing of that kind was wanting to him.
There were alfb certain Mullahs^ that were permitted to come and to read the Alcoran
to him (for he was become very devout.) And when he thought ht,there were brought
before him brave Horfes, and tamed Gazelles ( which is a kind of Goat ) to make
them fight with one another i as alfo divers forts of Birds of Prey, and feveral other
rare Animals, to divert him as formerly. Aureng-Zebe himfelf ufed an Art to over
come at laft his fiercenefs and obftinacy, which he had hitherto kept, though a Pri-
foner. And this was the effedt of the obliging Letters, full of refpecS: and fubmififion,
which he often wrote to his Father, confulting him often as his Oracle, and exprefiing
a thoufand cares for him j fending him alfo unceffantly fome pretty Prefent or other,
whereby Chah-Jehan was fo much gained, that he alfo wrote very often to Aureng-Zebe
touching the Government and State Affairs, and of his own Accord fent him fome of
thofe Jewels, which before he had told him of, that Hammers were ready to beat
them to Powder the firft time he fhould again ask for them. Befides, he confented that
the Daughter of T>ara^ which he had fo peremptorily denied, fhould be deliver'd to
him j and granted him at length that pardon and paternal bleffing which he had fo
often defired without obtaining it. Yet, under all this, Anreng-Zebe did not always flat
ter him j on the contrary, he fometimes return’d fharp Anfwers, when he met with
ftrains in his Fathers Letters that were pregnant, or exprelfed fomethingof his former
height and authority. Of this we may judge by the Letter, which l know from a
very good hand was once written to him by Aureng-Zebe^ to this effed: :
Sir, Ton would have me indijpenfably follow thofe ancient Cufoms^ and make my felf Heir
to all thofe that are in my Pay with the wonted rigor : An Omrah^ and even a Merchant can no
fooner dye, and fometimes even before his death, but we feal up his 'Trunks, and feize on his
Goods, and make a fined enquiry into his Eft ate, imprisoning and ill-treating the Officers of the
Houfe to difcover to us all he hath, even to the leaf Jewels* I will believe that there is fome
policy in doing fo, but it cannot be denied, that dis very rigorous, and fometimes very unjuji ,
and to fpeak^ the very truth, we may deferve well enough, that the fame fhould befall us every
day, what hapned to you from your Neikman-kan, and from the Widow of your rich Indian
Merchant, Moreover ( faid he ) it feems, lam by you reputed proud and haughty now I am
King : As if you kpew not by the experience of more than Forty years of your Feign, how
heavy anOrnament a Crown is, and how many fad and rejilefs Nights it paffeth through : as
if I could forget that excellent p off age of Mir-Timur , (commonly called T'&mbtxXm )
which is fo ferioufly delivered to us by that great Grandfather of ours, Ekbar, to the end that
we might the more weigh the importance and value of it, and confider, whether we have caufe
to pride our felves fo much in a Crown, Tou well know, that he faid, that the fame day
wheriTimur to^Bajazet, he made him come before him, and having fixed his eyes on him fell
a laughing', at which Bajazet being highly offended, fiercely faid to him, Laugh not at my
Fortune, Timur i know that ’tis God that is the Difpenfer of Kingdoms and Empires i
and that the fame can befall you to morrow, that hath befallen me to day. Whereupon
Timur made this ferious and brave Anfwer, I know as well as you, Bajazet,that ’tis God
that difiributeth Kingdoms and Empires j I laugh not at your ill Fortune, God forbid
Iftiould do fo: But beholding your face, l fmiled, and had this thought, That certainly
thefe Kingdoms and Empires muff in themfelves be very little and contemptible things
in the eyes of God, fince he giveth them to perfons fo ill made as you and I both are s
a deformed one-ey’d man, as you j and a lame wretch, as my fclfi Tou require alfo, that
abandoning all my other Employments, which I believe very neceffary for the efiabiifhment and
happinefs of this State, I fhould think on nothing but Conquefis, and the enlargement of the
Empiref I mufl confefs that this is indeed the bufintfs of a great Monarch, and of a Soul
truly Koyal, and that Ifhould not deferve to be of the Blood of the Great Timur, if I were not
of that mind, and had not fuch inclinations. Mean time, I think I fit not idle, and my Ar
mies are not ufelefs in the Kingdoms of Decan and Bengale : But we mufi alfo aver, that the
greatefiConquerors are not always the greatefi Kings') that we too often fee a Barbarian ma-^
k^ng Conquefis, and that thofe great Bodies of Conquefis do ordinarily fall of themfelves, and
by thtir own weight. He is a great King, that kpows to acquit himfelf worthily of that
Great and Augufl Employment and Charge of Kings, which is to difpenfe Jufiice to their Sub-
jeftsfoc. The reft is not come to my hands. H 2 The