The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c15.166

v4.c15.166

From Pāk Pattan he marched by way of Dīpālpur to Lahore, and returned by way of Hissār to Ajmer, which he reached on 24 July. On 9 August he reached Fathpur Sīkrī, where he seriously prosecuted his design of building a city. His reasons for this step are thus recorded by Abu-’l-Fazl: “Inasmuch as his exalted sons [Salīm and Murād] had been born at Sīkrī, and the God-knowing spirit of Shaikh Salīm had taken possession thereof, his holy heart desired to give outward splendour to this spot which possessed spiritual grandeur. Now that his standards had arrived at this place his former design was pressed forward and an order was issued that the superintendents of affairs should erect lofty buildings for the use of the emperor.”