The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 21.1.3

21.1.3

In my father’s reign (the light of God be his testimony!) the weight of the seer was 30 dams. About this time it came into my mind: “Why should I act contrary to his rules? It would be better to have it still of 30 dams.” One day Gosa’in Jadrup said that in the book of the Vedas, which the lords of his faith had written, the weight of the sir was 36 dams. “As from the coincidences of the hidden world your order has fallen in with what is laid down in our book, if it be fixed at 36 dams, it will be well.” It was ordered that hereafter throughout the whole territory it should be 36 dams. On Monday, the 19th, I marched. A horse and dress of honour were given to Raja Bhao Singh, who had been ordered to the support of the army of the Deccan. From this day, till Wednesday, the 28th, I made successive marches. On Thursday, the 29th, Delhi, the abode of blessings, was adorned by the alighting of the army of good fortune. At first I hastened with my children and the ladies on a visit to the enlightened shrine of Humayun (may the lights of God be his testimony!), and having made our offerings there, went off to circumambulate the blessed mausoleum of the king of holy men (Shaikh Nizamu-d-din Chishti), and strengthened my courage, and at the end of the day alighted at the palace, which had been got ready in Salimgarh. On Friday, the 30th, I halted.