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GANGETIC H1ND00STAN. 205
great perfonal beauty, and on that account populär: but in bis
difpofition haughty, violent, and mutable, weak and irrefolute ;
a<5fcuated by the fury of his paffion, and feduced by evil ad-
vifers, in 1606, he broke into open rebellion againft his father.
He raifed a confiderable force, was purfued, defeated, and
taken in paffing the Indus, with feveral of his raoft 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 fkin of an afs, the other
in that of an ox, and to be thrown into the ftreets, to the vio-
lence of a meridian fun, tili they died. Three hundred of the
youth of Hindooßariy who had through affection followed
Cbufero, next feit his fury. He ordered them to- be impaled 011
two rows of ftakes, 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 eontrivance of his bro-
ther, Sbab Jeban, afterwards emperor. Jehangir feit the moft
poignant grief even for his worthlefs offspring ; but never pu-
nißied the caufe of his forrow. Sbab Jeban broke into rebel-
lion ; wa§ at length defeated, and received his moft unmerited
pardon.
The maufoleum is of red ftone, is fquare, and has on each,
front Windows with fharp pointed arches, a cupola at each corner,
and a large dorne, rifing out of an o&agonal centre, the repofi-
tory of the body.
The maufoleum of Sultan Purvez, fecond fon to Jehangtr, Mausoleum
of Sultan
is elevated on 3 beautiful fquare platform of Hone, with an en- Purv*».
* DowJs Feiifhta, iii. p. 17.
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great perfonal beauty, and on that account populär: but in bis
difpofition haughty, violent, and mutable, weak and irrefolute ;
a<5fcuated by the fury of his paffion, and feduced by evil ad-
vifers, in 1606, he broke into open rebellion againft his father.
He raifed a confiderable force, was purfued, defeated, and
taken in paffing the Indus, with feveral of his raoft 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 fkin of an afs, the other
in that of an ox, and to be thrown into the ftreets, to the vio-
lence of a meridian fun, tili they died. Three hundred of the
youth of Hindooßariy who had through affection followed
Cbufero, next feit his fury. He ordered them to- be impaled 011
two rows of ftakes, 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 eontrivance of his bro-
ther, Sbab Jeban, afterwards emperor. Jehangir feit the moft
poignant grief even for his worthlefs offspring ; but never pu-
nißied the caufe of his forrow. Sbab Jeban broke into rebel-
lion ; wa§ at length defeated, and received his moft unmerited
pardon.
The maufoleum is of red ftone, is fquare, and has on each,
front Windows with fharp pointed arches, a cupola at each corner,
and a large dorne, rifing out of an o&agonal centre, the repofi-
tory of the body.
The maufoleum of Sultan Purvez, fecond fon to Jehangtr, Mausoleum
of Sultan
is elevated on 3 beautiful fquare platform of Hone, with an en- Purv*».
* DowJs Feiifhta, iii. p. 17.
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