The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c17.66

v4.c17.66

As autumn approached the sick emperor moved slowly down through the mountains. At one place his love of sport revived and he sat with his gun resting on a wall while the beaters drove the game up to him. He wounded a stag and a soldier who followed it slipped and was dashed to pieces at the foot of a precipice. This accident greatly shocked the dying ruler who felt that he had seen the angel of death. He could get no rest or ease and though he was carried two stages further the attempt to make a third march exhausted him and he died early next morning (7 November, 1627). His body was then taken to Lahore and buried in the garden outside the city where a noble tomb was built later by his widow.