The Institutes of Akbar 135.5.8

135.5.8

“No one was to marry more than one wife, except in cases of barrenness; but in all other cases the rule was, ‘One God, and one wife.’ Women, on reaching the limit of their period of fertility, when their courses stop, should no longer wish for the husband. If widows liked to re-marry, they might do so, though this was against the ideas of the Hindus. A Hindu girl, whose husband had died before the marriage was consummated, should not be burnt. If, however, the Hindus thought this a hardship, they should not be prevented (from burning the girl); but then a Hindu widow should take the girl...... Again, if disciples meet each other, one should say ‘Alláhu Akbar,’ and the other should respond ‘Jalla Jaláluhu.’ These formulas were to take the place of our salám, and the answer to the salám. The beginning of counting Hindu months should be the 28th day, and not the 14th, because the latter was the invention and innovation of Bikramájít. The Hindu feasts, likewise, were to take place in accordance with this rule. But the order was not obeyed, though farmáns to that effect, as early as 990, had been sent to Gujrát and Bengal.