200                       THE GREAT MOGUL.
	this way he vainly hoped to escape the destiny of Indian emperors — jealousies and mutinies during his life and fratricides after his death. But his plan failed. Shah Jehstn saw one son put a brother to death and he himself lived for seven years as the captive of the murderer. A contemporary of Shah Jehan was Emir Jemla, or Mirgimola, as Tavernier calls him. He was a man of great ability and singular for­tunes, being, so to speak, the Cardinal Wolsey of his king Abdullah Kutb Shah, lord of Gol-conda. Proud, ambitious, skillful and rich, he at length aroused the suspicions of his sovereign, as was the case with regard to Wolsey. Emir Jemla was not, however, a priest, but a soldier, and commanded the King's armies. A Persian by birth and of mean origin, he had raised him­self to be general-in-chief by means of his mili­tary talents and his vast wealth. Emir Jemla sent ships into many countries, says Tavernier, and worked diamond-mines under an assumed name, so that people discoursed of nothing but