[While the Emperor was staying in Kashmír, his illness increased, and he daily became weaker. He was unable to ride on horseback, but was carried about in a pálkí. His sufferings were great. * * He lost all appetite for food, and rejected opium, which had been his companion for forty years. He took nothing but a few cups of wine of the grape.
Just at this time, Sultán Shahriyár inopportunely fell ill. The “fox's disease”* robbed him of his honour; for all his hair, his whiskers, his eyebrows, and his eyelashes fell off. Nothing that the doctors prescribed was of any benefit; so he returned covered with shame to Lahore.]