'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎50] (369/1024)

Travels in India.
Part II
heap’d together great Sums, they would fain be going to Mecca, and ma
king rich Prefents to Mahomet. But the Great unwilling to let his
Money go out of his Country, will feldom permit them leave to undertake
that Pilgrimage : and therefore not knowing what to do with their Money
they employ a great part thereof in Monuments to perpetuate their Memo-
ries.
Of all the Monuments that are to be feen at that of the Wife of
cha-jehan is the molt magnificent} Ihe caus’d it to be fet up on purpofe near
the Tafimavan, to which all Strangers mult come, that they fiiould admire it.
The Tafimacan is a great Baz.ar y or Marketplace, compos’d of fix great Courts
all encompafled with Portico's ; under which there are Warehoufes for Mer
chants ; and where there is a prodigious quantity of Calicuts vended. The
Monument of this Degum, or Suhanefs^ ftands on the Ealtfide of the City,
upon the River fide, in a great place enclofed with Walls, upon which there
runs a little featlery, as upon the Walls of many Cities in Europe. This place
is a kind of Garden with Compartiments, like our Garden-plots ; but whereas
our Walks are made with Gravel, here the Walks are black and white Marble.
You enter into this place through a large Portal * and prefently upon the left
hand you efpy a fair Gallery, that looks towards Mecca ^ wherein there are
three or four Niches, wherein the Mufti comes at certain hours to pray. A
little beyond the middle of the place, toward the Water, are three great Plat
forms, one rais’d above another, with four Towers at the four Corners of each,
and Stairs within, upon the top whereof they call the people before the time
of their prayer. On the top there is a Cupola, little Ids magnificent than that
of V^al de Grace in Paris y it is cover’d within and witfiout with black marble,
the middle being of Brick. Under this Cupola is an empty Tomb } for the Be,
£«ms iriterr’d under the Arch of the lowelt Platform. The fame change of
Ceremonies which is obferv’d under ground, is obferv’d above For they change
the Tapeftries, Candles, and other Ornaments at feveral times, and there are
always MollaPs attending to pray. I faw the beginning and compleating of
this great work, that coil two and twenty years labour, and twenty thoufand
men always at work } fo that you cannot conceive but that the Expence malt
be excelfive. Cha-jehan had begun to raife his own Monument on the other
fide of the River } but the Wars with his Son, broke off that defign, nor did
jAurengz.eb, now reigning, ever take any care to finilh it. There is an Eunuch
who commands two thouland men, that is entrufted to guard not only the
Sepulcher of the Begum Courteous or formal title for (usually Muslim) women of elite status, especially of Turko-Mongol lineage. , but alfo the Tafimacan.
On another fide of the City, appears the Sepulcher of King jikabar. And
as for the Sepulchers of the Eunuchs, they have only one Platform, with four
little Chambers at the four Corners. When you come to Agra from Debly,
you meet a great Bez.ar near to which there is a Garden, where King
guire. Father of Cha-jehan, lies interr’d. Over the Garden Gate you fee the
Tomb it felf, befet with Portraitures, cover'd with a black Hearfe-Cloath, or
Pall, with Torches of white Wax, and tyvo Jefuits attending at each end. There
are fome who wonder, that Cha-jehan againft the practice of the Mahmetms,
who abhor Images, did permit of carving \ but the rdafon conje&ur’d at is,
that it is done upon the confideration that his Father and himfelf learnt from
the Jefuites certain principles of Mathematicks and Aftrology. Though he had
not the fame kindnefs for them at another time ; for going one day to
vifit an Armenian, that lay fick, whofe name was Corgia, whom he lov’d very
well and had honor’d with feveral Employments, at what time the Jefrites.
who liv’d next to the Armenians hQvife r Yang their Bell} the found thereof fo
difpleas’d the King, as being a dilturbance to the fick perfon, that in a great
fury he commanded the Bell to be taken away, and hung about his Elephants
neck. Some few days after, the King feeing his Elephant with that great
Bell about his neck, fearing fo great a weight might injure his-Elephant, cans
the Bell to be carried to the Couveval, which is a kind of a rail’d place, where
a Provoft fits as a Judg, and decides differences among the people of tna
Quarter, where it has hung^everfince. This Armenian had been brought up
with Cha-jehan 5 and in regard he was an excellent Wit, and an excellent Poet^