History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c72.s1.10

v5.c72.s1.10

Finally, after a fifth and last visit to Bijapur for five weeks (April-May 1695), he settled at Brahmapuri on the southern bank of the Bhima, (some 20 miles south-east of Pandharpur), which his pious zeal renamed Islampuri. Here he lived for four years and a half (21 May 1695—19 Oct. 1699), travelling to Sholapur every year in Ramzan in order to spend the holy month there in prayer, fasting and meditation. At Islampuri his encampment was walled round, and here he left his family in charge of his wazir when he set out on 19th October, 1699, on that endless campaign against the Maratha forts which was to wear out the last years of his life, and from which he returned to Ahmadnagar (20 Jan. 1706), only to die a year later (20 Feb. 1707).