The Institutes of Akbar 389.2

389.2

‘Mir ‘Abdullatif, however, immediately on receipt of his brother’s communication, fled to Gilan, and afterwards at the invitation of the emperor Humayun went to Hindustan, and arrived at Court with his family just after Akbar had ascended the throne. By him he was received with great kindness and consideration, and appointed in the second year of his reign as his preceptor. At that time Akbar knew not how to read and write, but shortly afterwards he was able to repeat some odes of Hafiz. The Mir was a man of great eloquence and of excellent disposition, and so moderate in his religious sentiments, that each party used to revile him for his indifference.’ ‘When Bairam Khan had incurred the displeasure of the emperor and had left Agrah and proceeded to Alwar, with the intention, as it was supposed, of exciting a rebellion in the Panjab, the emperor sent the Mir to him, to dissuade him from such an open breach of fidelity to his sovereign.’ Elliot, Index, l. c. Mir ‘Abdullatif died at Sikri on the 5th Rajab, 981, and was buried at Ajmir near the Dargah of Mir Sayyid Husain Khing-Suwar. ‘Abdullatif had several sons. The following are mentioned—1. Naqib Khan; 2. Qamar Khan; 3. Mir Muhammad Sharif. The last was killed in 984 at Fathpur by a fall from his horse while playing hockey with the emperor (Bad. II., 230). For Qamar Khan, vide No. 243.