The Nāṣirī Generations 271.3.9

271.3.9

It is amusing to read, in the face of the statements of authors who wrote their histories in the territories of the Mughal sovereigns, with the best means of obtaining information on such a point, and about which there is absolutely nothing to conceal, the various theories of European writers. Petis de la Croix, after stating that the spot was proscribed from the visitation of any one, says : "They buried him there [under the tree] with all the pompous ceremonies of the Mogul religion, and afterwards erected a most noble monument in this Place upon his Grave " ! Where is the native historian who ever said so, or who ever once mentioned such things as "the pompous ceremonies of the Mogul religion " ? All this is purely imaginary. Again he says : "The people, who came to visit the Tomb, planted other Trees round it, which so artfully covered it, and in such beautiful Order, as rendered it in time one of the finest Monuments in the World." He, however, quotes no authorities for these highly-coloured statements, and, moreover, buries him in "Tangut," which is totally incorrect.