f.214b: Shah-Jahan honouring Prince Awrangzeb at Agra (plate 43) In 1636 Prince Awrangzeb, Shah-Jahan's third son, was made Governor of the Deccan. This illustration shows him - lower left - returning to his father's court in Agra, 27 April 1637, immediately before his marriage. Awrangzeb was the least favourite of Shah-Jahan's sons and a jealousy existed between him and his eldest brother, Prince Dara-Shikoh, whom the Emperor openly favoured. The glance of Shah-Jahan is here directed to the standing figures of Dara-Shikoh and Muradbakhsh, the fourth and youngest son. The second son, Prince Shah-Shuja, stands at far right. Although the text tells us that 'the Emperor embraced that princely pearl of the crown in the bosom of affection and awarded him a regal robe of honour and other kingly tokens of favour,' the artist has chosen to depict the Prince's arrival at court rather than the moment when he would have ascended to the jharoka and been embraced by his father. Instead he stands like any visiting noble outside the railing of the Hall of Public Audiences, and from there makes a sign of humble obeisance. His brothers meanwhile tower over him from their positions at the jharoka level. The message conveyed in this illustration would not have been missed by those who mattered at court.