[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [State papers](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin) › [Āʾīn-i Akbarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari) › [The Ain i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett) › 272.5 # The Institutes of Akbar 272.5 The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 272.5 - **Language:** English ### [272.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.272.5) In the 42nd year, M. J. B. was promoted to a command of Three Thousand and Five Hundred. He was much liked by Akbar for his character, religious views (vide p. 209), pleasing manners, and practical wisdom. It is perhaps for this reason that Abulfazl has placed him first among the Commanders of Three Thousand, though names much more renowned follow. From his youth, M. J. B. had been fond of wine, but had not indulged in excesses; his habitual drinking, however, undermined his health, and brought on delirium (sarsam), of which he died, in 1008, at Burhanpur in the Dak’hin, after the conquest of A’sir. A short time before his death, he offended Akbar by declaring that had he had an Asir, he would have held it for a hundred years. M. J. B. was fond of poetry; he was himself a poet and wrote under the takhalluç of Halimi. - [Previous: 272.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.272.4) - [Next: 272.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.272.6) - [Up: 272](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.272) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.272.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.272.5) · Pramāṇa