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whofe door is adorned with feveral Scones of colour , mingled with Mother 
of Pearl. There are belides, three other fmaller Courts , which have their 
Waters and Buildings for the convenience and lodging of Imàns ^who are en- 
tertained to read the /ilcoran. 
King Ecbar had a mind to try as well, as the reft , the Vertue of this fame Ecbars Vow , 
Cogea-Mondy -, and becaufe he had no Male-Children ^ he had recourfe to f""" obtaining 
his Interceflîon to obtain them. He made a Vow to go and vifit his Tomb, j^j)^'*'^'^'^''" 
and refolved upon the Journey in the bourg of Agra. 
Though it be a walk of threefcore and two Leagues from Agra to Azmer^ 
yet he performed the Pilgrimage on foot , having ordered Stone-feats to King Echar 
be made at certain diftances , for him to reft on : Neverthelefs , he was madcaPilgn- 
quite tired out -, for being of a hot and ftirring Nature , he could hardly Le^^^on fooc 
lay a coriftraint upon himfelf to walk foftly , fo that he fell fick upon it. ^ °° * 
He entered bare-footed ( as the reft did ) into the Chappel of the Mock- 
Saint : There he made his Prayers, gave great Charity ^ and having per- 
formed his Devotion and read the Epitaph of Cogea Mondy ^ which is writ- 
ten there in the Verfian Language -, he returned back to the place from 
, whence became. 
As he paffed by Fetipour^ he confulted a certain Der'vijh,na.med Selim,who SelimzDer- 
was efteemed very devout -, and the Mahometans fayjthat this Man told him, '^'^'P'- 
that God had heard his Prayers,and that he fhould have three Sons-, at that. The Prophecy 
Ecbar was fo well pleafed with this Prophecy , efpecially when it began to of Selim the 
be fulfilled , that he gave his Eldeft Son the name of the Dervifh Selim -, that ^«'"^^A 
Town which was called Sycary , the name of Fetipour , which fignifies a sicary. 
place of Joy and Pleafure -, and that he built a very ftately Palace there , 
with a Defign to make it the Capital of his Empire. 
Az^mer is a Town of an indifferent bignefs-, but when the Great Mogol comes 
there, there is no room to ftir in it, efpecially when there is any Feftival -, 
becaufe, befides thé Court and Army, all the People of the Country about, 
flock thither , and fome diforder always happens. 
Let us fpeak a little of the Feaft of Neurous , which King Gehanguir Cele- 
^bratedat^sswer , where he happened to be one New Years day ^ for Neu- Neurous, 
rotii^ fignifies New Day ^ and by that , is meant^ the Firft day of the Year , 
which begins in March ^ when the Sun enters into Aries. 
CHAP. XXVIII. 
Of the Feaft of the New Tear, 
THe Mémoires that were given me obferve , that fome days before the The Feaft of 
Feftival, all the Palace was adorned -, and efpecially, thé Places and the New Year. 
Halls 5 into which People were fufFered to enter : There was nothing all 
over but Sattin, Velvet, Cloath and Places of Gold : The Halls were hung 
with rich Stuffs, Flower'd with Gold and Silver : And that where* the Great 
Mogul a^DQzfd in his Throne,was the moft magnificent of all : The Cloath The Orna- 
of State that covered it, was all fet with Precious Stones -, and the Floor was ofNew 
covered with a Perfian Carpet of Gold and Silver TifTue. The other Halls '''"*^' 
had in like manner,cheir Cloachs of Scace ^ Their Fooc-Carpecs, and ocher 
Ornamencs . and che Courts were alfo decked (the moft confiderable of 
them) with lovely Tents picched chere -, chough chey were noc fo Pcwnpous 
aschofe which are picched in che Capical Cicies of the Empire , upon a like 
Solemnity. The firft day of :he Feaft, che Throne was placed in che Roy- 
al Hall , and was covered all over wich che Jewels of che Crown ^ the num- 
ber of them was the greater, that there was but one of the Kings Thrones 
H brought -, 
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