Returning To The Former Court, Where The Adees, Or Guards, Keep
Watch, You Enter By Another Gate Into The New Durbar, Beyond Which Are
Several Apartments, And A Great Square Moholl, Sufficient To Lodge Two
Hundred Women In State, All Having Several Apartments.
From the same
court of guard, passing right on, you enter another small paved court,
and thence into another
Moholl, the stateliest of all, containing
sixteen separate suites of large apartments, each having a devoncan,
or hall, and several chambers, each lady having her tank, and enjoying a
little separate world of pleasures and state to herself, all pleasantly
situated, overlooking the river. Before the moholl appropriated to the
mother of Sultan Cussero, is a high pole for carrying a light, as before
the king, as she brought forth the emperor's first son and heir.
Before this gallery is a fair paved court, with stone gratings and
windows along the water; beneath which is a pleasure garden; and behind
are the king's principal lodgings, most sumptuously decorated, all the
walls and ceilings being laid over with pure gold, and along the sides,
about man's height, a great number of Venetian mirrors, about three feet
asunder, and in threes over each other; and below are many pictures of
the king's ancestors, as Akbar his father, Humaion his grandfather,
Babur his great-grandfather, the first of the race who set foot on
India, together with thirty of his nobles, all clad as calenders or
fakiers. In that disguise Babur and his thirty nobles came to Delhi to
the court of Secunder, then reigning, where Babur was discovered, yet
dismissed under an oath not to attempt any hostilities during the life
of Secunder, which he faithfully performed.
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