Travels in India (Tavernier) 50.12

50.12

Thus this great King finished his days sadly in prison, and died in the Agra fort about the end of the year 1666, during the time of my last journey in India. As during his reign he had commenced building the city of Jahānābād, which was not yet completed, he wished to see it once more before he died. But for this purpose it was necessary to obtain the consent of Aurangzeb, his son, who held him prisoner, and was quite willing to allow him to make the journey, and even to remain at Jahānābād as long as he wished, shut up in the castle, as he was in Agra, provided that he consented to travel by boat, ascending the river,