History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v2.c28.38

v2.c28.38

But the fate that Sulaiman Shukoh had dreaded more than death itself, was meted out to him by Aurangzib in violation of his ‘solemn promise.’ The captive was sent to Gwalior (on 15th January) and there ordered to be plied with the drink of opium-seeds. In this dismal State-prison the hapless Prince dragged his miserable life on for a year, and finally, in May 1662, “he was sent to the next world through the exertions of his keepers.” His career that had begun with so much promise and splendour was cut off at the age of thirty. On the Gwalior hill he was buried close to another princely victim of Aurangzib’s ambition, and Sulaiman Shukoh and his uncle Murad Bakhsh were united in death in that unhonoured cemetery.∗