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History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v4.c65.s11: § 12. Aurangzib enters Bijapur.

History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v4.c65.s11

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§ 12. Aurangzib enters Bijapur.

v4.c65.s11.1

A week afterwards, Aurangzib's tent was removed from Rasulpur to a tank a mile outside the Allapur gate. That day (19th September) the victor, seated on a portable throne, rode into the fort by way of the trenches of Saf Shikan Khan and the southern or Mangali gate, which had once been chosen for the assault. Along the roads of the city he marched, scattering handfuls of gold and silver coins right and left, and viewed the fort walls and bastions and the palaces within the citadel. Then he went to the Jama Masjid and rendered two-fold prayers to God for His favours. In Sikandar's palace he rested for some hours and received congratulatory offerings from his courtiers. All paintings on the walls drawn in violation of the Quranic law that man should not presumptuously vie with his Creator by depicting living beings, were ordered to be erased, and an inscription recording Aurangzib's victory was placed on the famous cannon Malik-i-maidan. In the evening the Emperor returned to his camp amidst a salvo of artillery. The Mangali gate was repaired and newly named the Gate of Victory (Fath Darwaza). (Ishwardas 105; Dil. 202; M.A. 281.)