History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v1.c17.7

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official annals of the Mughal Emperors written by their command, every period of ten years (called *dawwar*) was taken together and a volume devoted to it. Three such decades formed an epoch (*qarn*),* which was regarded as a sort of perfect and auspicious number. Shah Jahan had completed one such epoch and begun another. The occasion was, therefore, one of peculiar importance and solemnity.