A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s2.6

c19.s2.6

William Finch, the English traveller, who visited Agra early in the reign of Jahāngīr (1610), there saw 'a second gate, over which are two Rajaws in stone, who were slain in the King's Derbar before the King's eyes, for being over-bold in speech, they selling their lives bravely, in remembrance of which they are heere placed'. From a note appended by Purchas, it would seem that the two 'Rajaws' were mounted on elephants. The note states:—