The Institutes of Akbar 135.4.6

135.4.6

A second order was given that the Sun should be worshipped four times a day, in the morning, and evening, and at noon and midnight. His Majesty had also one thousand and one Sanscrit names of the Sun collected, and read them daily, devoutly turning towards the sun; he then used to get hold of both ears, and turning himself quickly round about, used to strike the lower ends of the ears with his fists. He also adopted several other practices connected with sun-worship. He used to wear the Hindu mark on his forehead, and ordered the band to play at midnight and at break of day. Mosques and prayer-rooms were changed into store rooms, or given to Hindu Chaukídárs. For the word jamá’at (public prayer), His Majesty used the term jimá’ (copulation), and for hayya ’ala, he said yalalá talalá. The cemetry within the town was ordered to be sequestered.” [p. 324.] “In the same year (991), His Majesty built outside the town two places for feeding poor Hindus and Muhammadans, one of them being called Khairpúrah, and the other Dharmpúrah. Some of Abulfazl’s people were put in charge of them. They spent His Majesty’s money in feeding the poor. As an immense number of Jogís also flocked to this establishment, a third, place was built, which got the name of Jogípiúrah. His Majesty also called some of the Jogís, and gave them at night private interviews, enquiring into abstruse truths; their articles of faith; their occupations; the influence of pensiveness; their several practices and usages;