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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    XV Shàhjahaii {continued) : ' PAGE quarrels among king’s sons, 187; character of Shàhjahàn, 188; practical joke of a musician, 189; a promoted door-keeper, 190; wrestlers, tiger-hunts, 191 ; women, 192; Ja‘far Khan’s wife, 193; Khalilullah Khan’s wife, 193; Shaistah Khan’s wife, 194; hall of mirrors, 194; women’s fair in the palace, 195; dancing and singing women {Kanchanls), 196; Shàhjahàn’s tests for sensible women, 196; good government, 197; punishment of death by snake-bite, 197 ; story of the qàzì, honest though bribed, 198 ; cowardlj^ generals punished, 198; Gujarat, 198; false accusers punished, 199 ; Kabul woman who sells nineteen husbands, 200 ; another case, 201 ; Sa‘adat Khan, a slave, story of, 201 ; Jesuits’ bell-tower at Àgrah destroyed, 202 ; instances of just decisions, 203 ; the soldier, the scribe, and the slave girl, 203 ; the four merchants and the cat with the broken leg, 203 ; thieves, how dealt with—case of the Dutch at Surat (1645), 204; dismissed ofHcial who sat dowm in king’s presence, 204 ; clever reply of Gulkhandah envoy, 205 ; the noble’s bequest to the king of horns and old shoes, 205 ; treasure - houses, 206 ; bribery, 207 ; Amar Singh, Rathor, 207 ; traitorous Pathaii officer and his son, 208 ; early child - bearing, 209 ; rebellion of Champat Bundelah, 209 ; Sa‘dullah Khan and Dom Matheus, Archbishop of Bicholim, 211 ; astrologers, 212; death of Khan Khànàn, 213; Sa‘id Khan Bahadur, 213; Shàhjahàn and the Brahman, 214; war with the Rana, 214; Srinagar (Garhwal), 215; Shàhjahàn’s children, Begam Sàliib, 216; Dulera, her lover, 218; Begam Saliib burnt b} accident, 219; aromatic spirits made by her, 219; Begam Sàliib’s stately retinue, 220; Dàrà Shukoh, 221 ; marries Ra‘nà-dil, a public dancer, 222; his buffoons, 222 ; Dàrà and Europeans, 223 ; Hakim Sarmad, 223; Jesuits at Àgrah (1656-57), 223; astrologers, 224; Dàrà’s two sons, 224; Shàhjahàn loved Dàrà, 224; Dàrà and the nobles, 225; Sahlullah Khàn’s death, 225 ; Mir Jumlah, 226; Shàh Shujà‘, 227; Ràjmahal, invasion of snakes, 228; Aurangzeb, 229; Roshan-àrà Begam, 229; Aurangzeb’s trick on the faqlrs, 229; Shekh Mir’s advice to Aurangzeb, 230; story of Aurangzeb and the Ràjput, 231 ; Aurangzeb in love, 231 ; Mir Jumlah, 231 ; Mir Jumlah arrives at Dihli, N. Manucci sees him, 237 ; preparations for a Qandahàr campaign, 237; gift of a great diamond to Shàhjahàn, 237; Ortenzio Bronzoni, lapidary, 238 ; Mir Jumlah sent back to the Dakhin, 238; Roshan Àrà Begam, 239; Muràd Ba^sh, 239; Mihr-un-nissà Begam, 240; illness of Shàhjahàn {1657), 240; Shàh Shujà‘ takes the field, 242; Sulaimàn Shukoh and Jai Singh sent against him, 243 ; Aurangzeb’s attitude, 246 ; he rebels, 247; persuades Muràd Bakhsh to join him, 248; Mir Jumlah’s apparent neutrality, 249; the other generals, except one, join Aurangzeb, 251 ; Aurangzeb offers Muràd the throne, 253 ; Dàrà’s preparations, 255 ; an imperial army defeated near Màndu, 258 ;