The Institutes of Akbar 135.7.5

135.7.5

It will be observed that the remarks on Akbar’s religious views do not extend beyond the year 1596, when the greater part of the Áín had been completed. Badaoni’s history ends with A. H. 1004, or A. D. 1595; but his remarks on Akbar’s religion become more and more sparing towards the end, and as subsequent historians, even Jahangir in his ‘Memoirs,’ are almost entirely silent on the religious ideas of the emperor, we have no means of following them up after 1596. Akbar, in all probability, continued worshipping the sun, and retained all other peculiarities of his monotheistic Parsi-Hinduism, dying as he had lived. The story related in that edition of Jahangir’s Memoirs which has been translated by Major Price, that Akbar died as a good Musalman, and ‘repented’ on his death-bed, is most untrustworthy, as every other particular of that narrative.