The Moghul Hedonist

Jahangir, the fourth Moghul emperor of India, was a scholar and a naturalist. While he devoted his time to observing the flora and fauna, his empress Nur Jahan ruled the Emperor and the empire. The Emperoras passion for beauty in nature lured him to Kashmir five times, away from the warring intrigues, during which time the Persians conquered Kandahar. The gardens of Kashmir, some built by Nur Jahan and others restored by her, became the Emperoras retreat and paradise. Jahangiras pilgrimage to Kabul guided him on his journey toward death, literally and metaphorically. aAll is vain, fleeting and perishable. In the twinkling of an eye we shall see the enchantress, Fate, who enslaves the world and its votaries. Seizes the throat of another and another victim. And so exposed is man to be trodden down by the calamities of life, that one can almost be persuaded to affirm that he never had existed. This world, the end of which is destined to be miserable, can scarcely be worth the risk of so much useless violence.a Jahangir.