[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Muntakhab al-tawārīkh](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh) › [Muntakhabu-t-tawarikh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig) › 77.1.1 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 77.1.1 Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 77.1.1 - **Language:** English ### [77.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.77.1.1) The Emperor of the time, the Khalif of the age, Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar Padshah (may he ever be firmly seated on the throne of the Khalifate and the seat of clemency!) with the approval of Bairam Khan, the Khan Khanan, began to honour and adorn the throne of the Sultanate, under an auspicious star, on Friday the 2nd of the month Rabi‘ul-avval, in the year nine hundred and sixty-three (963) in the garden of Kalanor — which, to this day, they have not yet finished laying out. Then he sent messages of conciliation and courtesy to the Amirs of the frontier, so that the Khutbah was read also at Dihli. And they composed this hemistich, as giving the date: ‘More noble than all princes he.’ They composed also the following distich: — ‘Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar, that prince of the age, At the date of \[the death of\] father said: Prince of the age am I.’ And another \[mnemosynon\] they found \[for the date\]: ‘The desire of fortune.’ Then the world began to blossom like a rose-garden, and pitiless Fate, binding up those wounds, said: — « “When Death removes a crown by force, At once another head is crowned ; When one old age completes its course, A younger rises from the ground.” » - [Previous: 76.1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.76.1.13) - [Next: 77.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.77.1.2) - [Up: 77.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.77.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.77.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.77.1.1) · Pramāṇa