Later Mughals v1.c6.s25.1

v1.c6.s25.1

Some months were passed quietly at Lahor. Enquiries were made from Inayatullah Khan about the number of stages to Kashmir. A few proposed that the Emperor should move to Kangra for the hot weather, as it was so much nearer than Kashmir, and that he should return to Lahor in the cold season. To these and other proposals Bahadur Shah's only reply was the verse "Paradise is there where no harm is received, where no one has (any) concern with any other." He would not, he said, fix any month or year for the march, the establishments had all dispersed, his days of journeying were drawing to an end, and there was only left the one inevitable journey. He busied himself in altering and improving the garden of Shalimar, although he did not live long enough to receive any pleasure from the work.* [Kamwar, Qasim.]