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CUET-UG History Test - Passage 4 — Flashcards

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Jahangir twice mentions a tower, tank and pavilion used as a hunting palace about 29 km from Lahore. Today the site is known as Shaikhupura, but Jahangir in 1606 refers to it as Jahangirpura and then in 1620 calls it Jahangirabad, both meaning City of Jahangir, the latter a more Persianate form.        
Here the emperor's favourite tame antelope died before 1606; it was buried in a grave above which a sculpted antelope and eulogy written by Mulla Muhammad Husain of Kashmir were placed. Adjacent to this gravestone, a tower was constructed around 1606 under the supervision of Sikandar Muin Khan, the landholder of the area. On Jahangir's orders, Sikandar Muin Khan also built a tank and royal residence. Despite Muin's death while the work was in progress, the complex was handsomely completed by 1620, the later stages of construction having been supervised by Iradat Khan. The expenses incurred were sufficiently awesome that the emperor recorded the amount in his memoirs. Jahangir considered the site a 'kingly hunting place', although his successor found the place inadequate and in 1634 spent another sizable sum rebuilding the pavilion.    

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Both the names Jahangirpura and Jahangirabad carry same meaning, i.e., 'City of Jahangir'. From which language the word Pura is taken?
Sanskrit
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