Storia do Mogor : or, Mogul India, 1653-1708 / by Niccolao Manucci, Venetian ; tr., with introduction and notes, by William Irvine.

Storia do Mogor, or, Mogul India, 1653-1708 / by Niccolao Manucci, Venetian ; tr., with introduction and notes, by William Irvine.

  • Manucci, Niccolò, 1639-approximately 1717.
Date:
1907-08
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Credit: Storia do Mogor, or, Mogul India, 1653-1708 / by Niccolao Manucci, Venetian ; tr., with introduction and notes, by William Irvine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SHAH SHUJA^ RETIRES TO ARA KAN my non-acceptance of employment. He caused me to be sent for once more, and asked why I did not accept service with him ; did I want higher pay than he offered ? I replied to him that I would willingly enter into his employ, but I longed to return to my native land, years having elapsed in absence from it ; and thus he allowed me to leave. Learning that Prince Shah Shujà^ had entrenched himself in the province of Bengal, and that to overcome him was most difficult, Aurangzeb, a little time after our arrival in DihlT, ordered Daler Khan to proceed with some fresh troops and cannon, manned by my companions, as a reinforcement to Mir Jumlah in his contest with the above-named prince. At the same time he wrote to the rajahs, or petty kings, and the great governors that all must lend their aid—in men, arms, and money; in short, everything that was necessary to Mir Jumlah. They must so continue to aid him until the prince was taken or expelled from the kingdom. With the reinforcements sent by Aurangzeb, and the assistance given by the petty rajahs and the governors, Mir Jumlah attacked Shah Shuja‘ with such violence that he was reduced to the last stage of desperation. For poor Shah ShujaS having written letters to many quarters, received no answer to please him. Everyone feared Aurangzeb. Shah Shuja‘ himself reflected on what his brother had done to their father, Shahjahan, and their two brothers. Darà and Murad Bakhsh, and the victories he had won ; and prognosticated similar ill-luck for himself, and saw that, were he to fall into the hands of the ^ poor faqlrj now become a king, he might count his days as numbered. He therefore resolved to send his son, Sultan Bang,i to the King of Arracao (Arakan) [269], a heathen, otherwise known as Mogo (Magh), beseeching him most earnestly to afford aid in his distress ; if he did not agree to that, would he, at the least, consent to receive him and his men within his territory until the season came for a voyage to Persia or to Mouca (? Makkah, Meccah) ? When fortune should again be kind to him, he would 1 Bang. Can this be his second son, Sultan Buland Aklitar ? The Dutch, in ‘ Dagh Register, anno 1661,’ p. 115, use the form ‘Bon Sultan,’ and call him the eldest son. VOL. L 24