History of India . THE EMPEROB JAHANGIK 59 under a superstitious spell, named after a wonder-working saint, petted and spoilt, the boy grew up wil-ful, indolent, and self-indulgent, too lazy and too indif-ferent to be either actively good or powerfully had instigated the murder of Akbars trusted friendand minister, Abu-1-Fazl; he was possessed of a violentand arbitrary temper; and, like his wretched brothers,Murad and Daniyal, he was a notorious and habitualdrunkard, although, uulike them, he could control him-self when necessary. His image may be seen depictedon his coins, wine-cup in
History of India . THE EMPEROB JAHANGIK 59 under a superstitious spell, named after a wonder-working saint, petted and spoilt, the boy grew up wil-ful, indolent, and self-indulgent, too lazy and too indif-ferent to be either actively good or powerfully had instigated the murder of Akbars trusted friendand minister, Abu-1-Fazl; he was possessed of a violentand arbitrary temper; and, like his wretched brothers,Murad and Daniyal, he was a notorious and habitualdrunkard, although, uulike them, he could control him-self when necessary. His image may be seen depictedon his coins, wine-cup in hand, with unblushing effront-ery: it is of a piece with the astonishingly simplecandour of his own memoirs. As he grew older hetoned down somewhat, partly, he says, from a convic-tion that he was injuring his health, but chiefly, nodoubt, under the influence of his beautiful and talentedwife Nur Jahan, the Light of the World. When he ascended the throne in 1605, at the age ofthirty-seven, his character, never wan
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