Niccolo Manucci, an Italian quack doctor living in Madras in the early years of the 18th century, observes that the emperor Aurangzeb has a total of seventeen livings sons, grandsons and great-grandsons of adult age. He comments:
'What an event to behold will be the tragedy following the death of this old man! One only of these princes can succeed, and thereby protect his family; the rest of them will be decapitated, or lose their lives in various other ways. It will be a much worse tragedy than that which happened at the end of King Shahjahan's reign.'
Quoted Bamber Gascoigne The Great Moghuls, Cape 1971, page 243
Niccolo Manucci, an Italian quack doctor living in Madras in the early years of the 18th century, observes that the emperor Aurangzeb has a total of seventeen livings sons, grandsons and great-grandsons of adult age. He comments:
'What an event to behold will be the tragedy following the death of this old man! One only of these princes can succeed, and thereby protect his family; the rest of them will be decapitated, or lose their lives in various other ways. It will be a much worse tragedy than that which happened at the end of King Shahjahan's reign.'
Quoted Bamber Gascoigne The Great Moghuls, Cape 1971, page 243
predicts appalling bloodshed
Niccolo Manucci, an Italian quack doctor living in Madras in the early years of the 18th century, observes that the emperor Aurangzeb has a total of seventeen livings sons, grandsons and great-grandsons of adult age. He comments:
'What an event to behold will be the tragedy following the death of this old man! One only of these princes can succeed, and thereby protect his family; the rest of them will be decapitated, or lose their lives in various other ways. It will be a much worse tragedy than that which happened at the end of King Shahjahan's reign.'
Quoted Bamber Gascoigne The Great Moghuls, Cape 1971, page 243
