History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c84.s5.t1.23

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The long roll of natural calamities during the half century of Aurangzib's reign includes two earthquakes (June 1669 and 1681), two conflagrations of the capital (1672 and 1678), one flood (1681), and a famine (1688.) The most notable events of this period in the history of Kashmir were Aurangzib's royal progress through it (1663),† of which Bernier has left a graphic account, and the conquest of Greater Tibet (1666), whose ruler, styled Daldal Namjal in the Persian chronicles, bowed to Islam, caused coins to be struck and the *khutba* read in the Emperor's name, and built a mosque in his capital. In 1683 when the Black Qalmaqs invaded his country he begged the aid of his suzerain. An imperial force sent from Kabul under Fidai Khan (the son of the Kashmir subahdar Ibrahim Khan) drove the Qalmaqs out, reinstated the Lama, and returned in triumph with much booty. [Ch. 26 § 6.]*