n6 Travels in India. Part IX 



For Dara-Cba being fent from phanabat with a Guard to the place f~p 

 imprifbnment j when he came to a fair place where he thought to repe& h\ ' S 

 felf, they drefs'd up the Tent where he was to leave his Head. After he had 

 eatem, Seif-Kan came and brought him the fentence of his Death. D.vra-Cl 

 feeing him enter, told him he was very welcome, and that he was glad to {1 

 one of his moft faithful Servants. Seif-Kan made anfvvcr, that indeed he l la ! 

 formerly been one of his Servants, but that now he was the Slave of Aur e J 

 zxb 9 who had commanded him to bring him his Head. Mult I dye then ? fiS 

 Dard-Cha, "lis the Kings command, reply'd Seif-Kan, and I am entrufted t 

 execute it. Sepper-Chckour, whoJay in an anti-Chamber of the Tent, waki 

 upon this conteft , would have feiz'd upon certain weapons which had been 

 taken from him, with an intention to have afMed his Father -, but he was pre- 

 vented by thofe that accompany'd Seif-Kan. Dara-Cba would have made fonJ 

 refiftance himfelf, but feeing it was in vain, he only dcfir'd time for his dc?o! 

 tions, which was granted him. In the mean time Sepper-Cbckour was taken from 

 him ; and while they held him a ftory, a Slave took off Dara-CMs Head 

 which was carried to Aureng-z.eb by Seif-Kan. This bloody Tragedy being 

 thus acted, Scppcr-Chekour was fent to the Cattle of Goaalcor, to keep his Uncle 

 Morat-Bakcbe company. As for the Wives and Daughters of Daru-Cha 

 they were allotted an Apartment in Aurcng-^el>'s Haram, ' ' 



CHAP. V. 



Hem Aureng-zeb causd himfelf to be dal.ird Kivg ; and of the Eight 



of Sultan -Sujah, 



AS it is the cuftom at the performance of that Ceremony, for the new Kin? 

 •** to feat himfelf upon the Throne j there was not much time required to 

 prepare one, in regard that Cha-jcban before his imprifbnment had finiflf'd that 

 which the Great Tamerlane had begun 5 - which was the richeft and moft magni- 

 ficent that ever was feen. But as the Grand Cadi of the Empire, and Chief 

 of the Law was to Proclaim the new King, Atfreng-ub found himfelf oppos'd 

 by him. For the Cadi told him, that the Law of . 4ah<mei and the Law of Na- 

 ture equally forbad him to declare him King, whifehls Father liv'd ; befides 

 that he had put his elder Brother to death, to whom the Empire b^ony/d af- 

 ter the death of Charjehan their Father. This ftout refiftance of the Cadi did 

 not a little perplex Auren^b^ and therefore that he might not feem to ap- 

 pear irreligious, he call'd all the Doftors of the Law together* to whom lie 

 reprefented the incapacity of his Father to govern, through' age aud many infir- 

 mities that troubled him j as for Dara-Cba his Brother, he had pat him to death 

 becaufe he was a {lighter of the Law, drank Wine, and favoured Infidels. Thofe 

 reafons, intermix'd with threats, caus'd his Council of Confluence to conclude 

 that he deferv'd the Empire, and ought to be proclaim'd Kin? , though the 

 Cadi obftmately perfifted in his firft refolution. There was no other remedy 

 therefore , but to remove him from his employment, as a difturber of the 

 pubhek peace, and to chufe another for the Honour of the Law, and the Good 

 of the Kingdom. The perfon whq was elected by the Council was foon con- 

 firm d by Aureng-z.eb 5 in acknowledgment whereof, he proclaimed him King 

 the twentieth of Ottcber, 1660. This Proclamation being made in the Mofmec 

 Aurcng-^eb feated himfelf upon the Throne, and received the Homages of all 

 the Grandees of the Kingdom. 



However, Ar.reng-^eb did not think his Throne faft enough, nor himfelf fe- 

 cure in the Empire, fo long as Sultan Sujab was raifing a powerful Army in 

 Bengal* to re eafe his Father. Thereupon he fent a considerable Force aaainft 

 mm, under the Command of Sultan Mahomed his eldeft Son 3 to whom he ap- 

 pointed for his Lieutenant the Emir-femla, one of the greatelr Captains that 

 ever came out of Perjia into India. His great Condud and Courage had ren- 

 der d him a perfon to be revercne'd by all pofterity, had he been faithful to 



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