The ambitious Adham Khan assassinates Akbar’s favorite general, Atga Khan, in 1562.

Furious, Akbar himself throws his foster brother from the forty-foot ramparts of the Agra Fort—twice.

When Akbar breaks the news of her son’s sudden demise to Maham Anga, she famously comments, “You have done well” but, mentally unbalanced by her loss, dies shortly afterwards.

Akbar memorializes her and Adham by erecting a tomb, Bul-bulaiyan, at Mehrauli village near New Delhi.

Built atop the walls of Lal Kot and rising from a terrace enclosed by an octagonal wall provided with low towers at the corners, the tomb consists of a domed octagonal chamber in the Lodhi Dynasty style and Sayyid dynasty early in the fourteenth century.

It has a verandah on each side pierced by three openings.

It is known popularly as Bul-bulaiyan (meaning a labyrinth or maze), for a visitor often loses his way amidst the several passages in the thickness of its walls.