Shah
Jahan was, it is said, inconsolable to the point of contemplating abdication
in favour of his sons. The court went into mourning for over two years;
and Shah Jahan decided to commemorate the memory of Mumtaz with a building
the like of which had never been seen before.
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Shah
Jahan was, it is said, inconsolable to the point of contemplating abdication
in favour of his sons. The court went into mourning for over two years;
and Shah Jahan decided to commemorate the memory of Mumtaz with a building
the like of which had never been seen before. 
