History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v4.c65.s13.1

v4.c65.s13.1

We may here conveniently follow the last Adil-Shahi Sultan to his grave. After being carried about in the Emperor's train for some time, and begging in vain for the trans-Krishna district of his late kingdom to be given to him as a fief, he was lodged in the State-prison of Daulatabad. Here in a few small apartments almost overhanging the steep bare side of the hill, he sighed out many years of his life in the company of a brother in misery, Abul Hasan, the deposed Sultan of Golkonda. Later, he was again carried about with the camp of Aurangzib, a captive within the limits of the gulalbar tents, in the keeping of Hamid-ud-din Khan Bahadur. In this condition he died on 3rd April, 1700, at the foot of Satara fort, which Aurangzib was then besieging. (*Akhbarat*, 44/52.) He had not yet completed 32 years of age. Having ascended the throne when a boy of four only, he had passed 14 years as an impotent puppet in the hands of his ministers and another fourteen years as Aurangzib's prisoner.[*] (B.S. 541.)