Medieval India From Contemporary Sources : Extracts From Arabic And Persian Annals And European Travels
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Your Majesty is a king. Heaven forbid that there should not be a proper alimony and that so a cause of annoyance should arise." His Majesty [who was then poor after his defeats by Shir Shah ] got angry, and rose and went away. Then my mother wrote and sent a letter, saying, "The girl's mother has even before this been using persuasion. It is astonishing that you should go away in anger over a few words." He wrote in reply, " Your story is very welcome to me. Whatever persuasion you may use, by ...FROM CONTEMPORARY SOURCES. 57 my head and my eyes, I will agree to it. As for what they have written about alimony, please Heaven, what they ask will be done. My waiting eye is upon the road". . . . On another day he came to my mother and said, "Send some one to call Hamida-banu Begam here." When she sent, the Begam did not come, but said, "If it is to pay my respects, I was exalted by paying my respects the other day. Why should I come again?. ... To see Kings once is lawful; a second time is forbidden.
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