About one mile east of the city (of Delhi) is the tomb of the celebrated Jahānārā Begam, eldest daughter of the emperor Shāhjahān, no less famous for her wit, gallantry, and beauty, than for her filial attachment in undergoing a voluntary confinement of ten years with her father in the castle of Agra. The tomb is of fine white marble, with a hollow space at the top, which was formerly filled with earth and flowers. At the head of the grave is a tablet of white marble, with an inscription in black characters; the slab is decorated at its corners with cornelians of different colours.
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بحجز کياه و سبزي نپوشد مزار ما
که قبرپوش غريبان همه کياه و بس
الفقره العاجلت جهان ارا بيکم بنت شاه جهان مريد
In English thus:
“Let no one scatter over my grave aught besides earth and verdure, for such is best befitting the sepulchre of one of an humble mind.”
On the margin,
“The perishable fakīr, Jehanarai Begam, daughter to Shāhjahān, and disciple of the saints of Cheesty, in the year of the Hijerah 1094[127].”