Muntakhab al-tawarikh 15: Building of Palaces.
Muntakhabu-t Tawáríkh of 'Abdu-l Kádir Badáúní (extracts) 15
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[Text, vol. ii. p. 173.] In 981 fine spacious palaces were built on the road to Ajmír. His Majesty's devotion induced him every year to go on a pilgrimage to that city. So directions were given for building a palace at every stage between Agra and Ajmír, and for erecting a pillar and sinking a well at every kos. Some hundreds of thousands of stags' horns, which had been killed in the course of His Majesty's life, were placed upon the pillars as a memorial for the world. Would that, instead of these, gardens or saráís had been formed!