The Institutes of Akbar 135.7.2

135.7.2

These two miracles make up the first of the four chapters, into which the author of the Dabistán has divided his article on the “Divine Faith.” The second chapter contains religious dialogues, and extracts from Badaoni, which are rather conjecturally rendered in Shea’s Translation. The third chapter contains remarks on the worship of the sun and stars, chiefly with reference to the sun-worship of the Tatars. The last chapter contains extracts from the third and fifth books of the Ain. P. 410. ‘His Majesty also sent money to Írán, to bring to India a wise Zoroastrian of the name of Ardsher.’ P. 412. Abulfazl wrote, as a counterpart to his commentary on the Ayatul-kursí (p. 169), a preface to the translation of the Mahabharat (vide p. 105) of two juz. P. 413. ‘When Sultan Khwajah, who belonged to the members of the Divine Faith, was near his death, he said that he hoped, His Majesty would not have him buried like a mad man. He was therefore buried in a grave with a peculiar lamp, and a grate was laid over it, so that the greater luminary, whose light cleanses from all sins, might shine upon him. * * * Should a Hindu woman fall in love with a Muhammadan, and be converted to the Islam, she would be taken away by force and handed over to her family; but so should also a Musalmán woman, who had fallen in love with a Hindu, be prevented from joining Hinduism.”