Storia do Mogor 60.3.5

60.3.5

This custom was introduced by a law of the great king Biguer-Majid (Bikramajit), founder of the city of Dihli, by reason of Rajput wives murdering their husbands by poison. By this glorious end was taken from the world the most beautiful woman of Hindustan, about whom there had been so many and such prolonged wars [82]. Thus Akbar with all his tricks could not achieve his designs, and her death put an end to the vain hopes of the enamoured king. He continued to invest the fortress, and the Rajputs defended it with the same valour as before. The Hindu king, the Rana, seeing that Akbar did not mean to raise the siege, while on his side he had no intention of surrendering the place to him, sent out to sue for peace on the condition that the fortress should belong to neither him nor to Akbar. Akbar accepted the offer, and as a memorial of so many wars a tablet was placed above the gate with an inscription to this effect : 'Neither yours nor mine for ever.' I have seen this stone several times, and up to this day it is in the same place ; but the fortress was a mere night-shelter for herdsmen until Aurangzeb ordered it to be repaired, as I shall recount hereafter (II., 189).