12 HISTORY OF AURANGZIB. [CHAP. I. Death drops the curtain even on emperors; it is no dishonour. The shame lay in what my brothers did !"* The heroic Three days afterwards occurred his fifteenth birthday. The Emperor had the boy weighed. against gold pieces in full Court and presented him with the amount (5000 mohars,) the elephant Sudhakar, and other gifts worth two lakhs of rupees in all. deed was celebrated in Urdu and Persian verses. The Poet Laureate, Saidai Gilani, surnamed Bedil Khan, got Rs. 5,000 for his ode. Shuja was praised for his gallant exertions. Another sum of 5,000 gold pieces was distributed by the Emperor in charity.† Thereafter we get occasional glimpses of Aurangzib. Next year the Emperor paid a visit to Kashmir. Aurangzib accompanied him, and was presented with the parganah of Lukh-bhavan near Sahibabad or Achbal (September, 1634).‡
- Hamiduddin Khan's Ahkam-i-Alamgiri, Ir. MS. 15a
& b. Dara Shukoh is unjustly taunted with cowardice in the above speech. He was at some distance from Shuja and Aurangzib, and could not, even if he had wished it, have come to Aurangzib's aid as the affair was over in a few minutes. For another version of the incident, see Dow, iii. 136. † Abdul Hamid, I. A. 493. Abdul Hamid, I. B. 52. Achbal, in the Kuthar Pargana, Digitized by Microsoft Ⓡ
