The Institutes of Akbar 132.2.10

132.2.10

“In 984, the news arrived that Shah Tahmasp of Persia had died, and Shah Isma’il II. had succeeded him. The Tarikh of his accession is given in the first letters of the three words [Bad. II, p. 241.] In 985, the news arrived that Shah Isma’il, son of Shah Tahmasp had been murdered, with the consent of the grandees, by his sister Pari Jan Khanum. Mir Haidar, the riddle writer, found the Tarikh of his accession in the words Shahinshahi rui zamin [984,] ‘a king of the face of the earth,’ and the Tarikh of his death in Shahinshahi zer i zamin [985,] ‘a king below the face of the earth.’ At that time also there appeared in Persia the great comet which had been visible in India (p. 240), and the consternation was awful, especially as at the same time the Turks conquered Tabriz, Shirwan, and Mazandaran. Sultan Muhammad Khudabandah, son of Shah Tahmasp, but by another mother, succeeded; and with him ended the time of reviling and cursing the Cahabah. But the heretical ideas had certainly entered Hindustan from Persia.”