History of India . d. Your sick motherUdaipuri would fain die with me. Peace! On Friday, the 4th of March, 1707, in the fiftiethyear of his reign, and the eighty-ninth of his life, afterperforming the morning prayers and repeating thecreed, the emperor Aurangzib gave up the ghost. Inaccordance with his command, Carry this creatureof dust to the nearest burial-place, and lay biTn in theearth with no useless coffin, he was buried in all sim-plicity near Daulatabad beside the tombs of Moslemsaints. Every plan that he formed came to little good;^every enterprise failed : such is the comment of the
History of India . d. Your sick motherUdaipuri would fain die with me. Peace! On Friday, the 4th of March, 1707, in the fiftiethyear of his reign, and the eighty-ninth of his life, afterperforming the morning prayers and repeating thecreed, the emperor Aurangzib gave up the ghost. Inaccordance with his command, Carry this creatureof dust to the nearest burial-place, and lay biTn in theearth with no useless coffin, he was buried in all sim-plicity near Daulatabad beside the tombs of Moslemsaints. Every plan that he formed came to little good;^every enterprise failed : such is the comment of theMohammedan historian on the career of the sovereignwhom he justly extols for his devotion, austerity,,and justice, and his incomparable courage, long-suffering, and judgment. Aurangzibs life had beena vast failure, indeed, but he had failed grandly. Itis his glory that he could not force his soul, that hedared not desert the colours of his faith. The greatPuritan of India was of such stuff as wins the CHAPTER VII THE PALL OF THE MOGHUL EMPIRE THE HINDU EEVIVAL 1707-1765 A. D. AURANGZIB was the last of the Great MoghtQs,in all save the name. He had been by far themost powerful of the line; he had ruled wider terri-tories and commanded vaster armies than Akbar; andhe had governed his teeming populations with an ab-solute despotism in which no other man had a Akbar had achieved by broad-minded statesman-ship, and Shah Jahan by imposing majesty and pano-plied array, Aurangzib had accomplished by the ex-ercise of an iron wiU and iadomitable personal the greater part of his long reign no sovereignwas ever more abjectly feared and obeyed; certainlynone showed a more marvellous grasp of administra-tion. Then, at the last, the effects of too close re-pression, of overgovemment, and of excessive central- 173 174 THE FALL OF THE MOGHUL EMPIRE ization were discovered. The tedious war in the Dec-can exhausted his armies and destroyed his prestige,and
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