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The Dome of Pervaiz
By LahoreBazaar Published: 01/24/2009
There is a high dome to the west of the village of Khawaja Said. It stands on an eminence in the midst of cultivated fields on a circular platform resting on another platform of octagonal shape, of the height of a man. The dome rises gracefully from an octagonal base, supported by arches. It was decorated with marble and other precious stones, but Ranjit Singh divested it of its costly materials, which he took to Amsitsar to embellish the Darbar Shaib, or Sikh temple.
In the time of Shah Jahan, a market flourished at this place, which was called parwezabad. The spot is still known by the old inhabitants as Parwezabad.
The dome is known as the Maqbara of Prince Prwez, second son of Jahangir, and both Chishti and Mufti Ghulam Sarwar ascribe it to that Prince. But Parwez died of delirium tremens in 1036 A.H in Burhanpur (Decean). The Emperor heard this news at Cabul, on his deliverance from captivity through the unwearied exertions of his faithful wife Nur Jahan, and Shah Jahan became the most probable heir to the Crown.
The auther thinks it’s probable, judging for the fact that the place is still called Parwezabd, that this is the burial-place of Parwez’s two sons who, we are informed, were murdered at Lahore along with the other Princes of royal blood, by order of Shah Jahan, on his accession to the throne, their bodies being buried in a garden at Lahore.