The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 10.1.4
Dwázda-Sála-i Jahángírí; Wáki’át Jahángírí, of the Emperor Jahángír (Elliot & Dowson, extracts) 10.1.4
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10.1.4
At mid-day, when it became hot, I rested under the shade of some trees, and I observed to Khan-i ’azam, that I had been so engrossed with this unhappy matter that I had not taken the allowance of opium I usually took in the fore-part of the day, and that no one had reminded me of it. My distress arose from the thought that my son, without any cause or reason, had become my enemy, and that if I did not exert myself to capture him, dissatisfied and turbulent men would support him, or he would of his own accord go off to the Uzbeks or Kazilbashes, and thus dishonour would fall upon my throne. Determined on the course to be pursued, after a short rest, I started from the pargana of Mathura, which is twenty kos from Agra, and after travelling two kos farther, I halted at one of the villages of that pargana, in which there was a tank.