The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c18.95

v4.c18.95

By the confinement of Murād Bakhsh Aurangzīb was now relieved of immediate anxiety, and he marched on to Delhi, where he rapidly matured his plans. One force was sent at once after Dārā, and another was despatched east to capture Allahābād as a bulwark against Sulaimān Shukoh and the possibility of action by Shāh Shujāʻ. For three weeks he halted, busy with the details of civil administration. Here he finally achieved his original plan and assumed the imperial title, though with scanty pomp, taking the additional name of ʻĀlamgīr (universe grasper). Thus ended the reign of Shāh Jahān, who spent the remaining years of his life a prisoner in the fort of Āgra. Here he was confined in the gilded marble palace he had built, from which he could gaze down the Jumna with its arid dusty banks to the magnificent tomb he was building for his wife—and himself.