GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN. ao^ 



great perfonal beauty, and on that account popular : but in his 

 difpofition haughty, violent, and mutable, weak and irrefolute ; 

 a6luated by the fury of his paffion, and feduced by evil ad- 

 vifers, in 1606, he broke into open rebellion againft his fatker. 

 He raifed a confiderable force, was purfued, defeated, and 

 taken in pafling the Indus, with feveral of his moft confidera- 

 able followers : he was brought in chains before his father. 

 The inexorable Jehanglr immediately ordered two of the prin- 

 cipal to be fown up, one in the raw ikin of an afs, the other 

 in that of an ox, and to be thrown into the llreets, to the vio- 

 lence of a meridian fun, till they died. Three hundred of the 

 youth of Hindoojian^ who had through affeilion followed 

 ChuferOy next felt his fury. He ordered them to be impaled on 

 two rows of Ifakes, and as long as any furvived, he caufed his 

 fon to be led between the rows to hear their dying agonies*. 

 Cbufero was, in 1621, murdered by the contrivance of his bro- 

 ther, Sbab Jeban, afterwards emperor^ Jebangir felt the moft 

 poignant grief even for his worthlefs offspring ; but never pu- 

 niflied the caufe of his forrow. Sbab Jeban broke into rebel- 

 lion ; was at length defeated, and received his moft unmerited 

 pardon. 



The maufoleum is of red ftone, is fquare, and has on each 

 front windows with fliarp pointed arches, a cupola at each corner, 

 and a large dome, riling out of an octagonal centre, the repofi- 

 tory of the body. 



The maufoleum of Sultan Purvez-i fecond fon to Jebangir, aIausoleum 



OF Sultan 

 is elevated on a beautiful fquare platform of ftone, with an en- Purvez. 



* Dow's Ferifhta, iii. p. 17. 



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