[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) › 73.15 # The Institutes of Akbar 73.15 The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 73.15 - **Language:** English ### [73.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.73.15) By order of His Majesty, the author of this volume composed a new version of the Kalīlah Damnah, and published it under the title of ‘Ayār Dānish. The original is a master-piece of practical wisdom, but is full of rhetorical difficulties; and though Naçrullāh i Mustaufī and Maulānā Husain i Wā’iz had translated it into Persian, their style abounds in rare metaphors and difficult words. The Hindī story of the Love of Nal and Daman, which melts the heart of feeling readers, has been metrically translated by my brother Shaikh Faizī i Fayyāzī, in the masnawī metre of the Lailī Majnūn, and is now everywhere known under the title of Nal Daman. As His Majesty has become acquainted with the treasure of history, he ordered several well informed writers to compose a work containing the events which have taken place in the seven zones for the last one thousand years. Naqīb Khān, and several others, commenced this history. A very large portion was subsequently added by Mullā Ahmad of T’hat’hah, and the whole concluded by Ja’far Bēg i Açaf Khān. The introduction is composed by me. The work has the title of Tārīkh i Alfī, the History of a thousand years. - [Previous: 73.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.73.14) - [Next: 74.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.74.1) - [Up: 73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.73) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.73.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.73.15) · Pramāṇa