History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v4.c66.s8.3

v4.c66.s8.3

Bijapur fell on the 12th September of that year, and its fall set the Mughal forces free to deal the death-blow at the Qutb-Shahi monarchy. At last the fateful hour had come,—the hour which the kings of Golkonda had dreaded for half a century, which they had so abjectly tried to avert, and which the last among them had tried to banish from his mind by drowning himself in sensual pleasure. Aurangzib was about to carry to completion what Akbar and Shah Jahan had merely dreamt of and he himself had fruitlessly sought during seventy years of his life: the Mughal empire was to embrace the whole of the Deccan without a rival.