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of titles, after having had audience of the Emperor were sent by him to pay their respects to the Crown Prince.[1] Much of the administration was latterly conducted at Dara's direction in the Emperor's presence, or even by Dara alone
with permission to use the Emperor's name and seal. In short, everything was done to make the public familiar with the idea that he was their future sovereign and to render the transfer of
the crown to him on Shah Jahan's death easy.
Dara was just turned of forty-two years. He had taken after his great-grand-father Akbar. In his thirst for his religious views. pantheistic philosophy he had studied[2] the Talmud and the New Testament, the writings of the Muslim Sufis, and the Hindu
- ↑ Waris, 85a, (Ismail Hut presents a remarkable horse to Dara), 91b, 116a (Srinagar Rajah makes Dara his mediator), 87b, 97b (Dara procures pardons).
- ↑ This account of Dara's philosophical studies is based on the extracts from the prefaces of his works given by Rieu in his British Museum Catalogue. Dara wrote in Persian (i) Sirr-ul-asrar, a translation of 50 of the Upanishads, completed on 1 July, 1657. (2) Majmua-ul-Baharain, a treatise on the technical terms of Hindu pantheism and their equivalents in Sufi phraseology. (3) Dialogue with Baba Lal (really recorded by Chandrabhan). (4) Safinat-ul-awliya or lives of Muslim saints, completed 11 Jan., 1640. (5) Sakinat-ul-awliya or the life of Mian Mir, completed 1052 A. H. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th are in the Khuda Bakhsh Library. See also Faiyas-ul-qawanin, 377 388, for Dara's correspondence with Shaikhs Muhibullah and Dilruba.
