Muntakhab al-tawarikh 17: Building of the fort of Payag.

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[Text, vol. ii. p. 176.] On Safar 23rd, a.h. 982, His Majesty arrived at Payag (Prayaga), which is commonly called Illahabas, where the waters of the Ganges and Jumna unite. The infidels consider this a holy place, and with the object of obtaining the rewards which are promised in their creed, of which transmigration is one of the most prominent features, they submit themselves to all kinds of tortures. Some place their brainless heads under saws, others split their deceitful tongues in two, others enter hell by casting themselves down into the deep river from the top of a high tree. Here His Majesty laid the foundations of an Imperial city, which he called Ilahabas.