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296 of titles, after having had audience of the Emperor were sent by him to pay their respects to the Crown Prince. Much of the administration was latterly conducted at Dara's direction in the Emperor's presence, or even by Dara alone with permission to use the Emperor's name and seal. In short, everything was done to make the public familiar with the idea that he was their future sovereign and to render the transfer of the crown to him on Shah Jahan's death easy.

Dara was just turned of forty-two years. He had taken after his great-grand-father Akbar. In his thirst for

pantheistic philosophy he had studied the Talmud and the New Testament, the writings of the Muslim Sufis, and the Hindu