Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.44.1

78.44.1

“Than the mountains crumble, and the heavens be cleft!” And the Resurrection, and Judgment, and other details and traditions, of which the Prophet was the repository, he laid all aside. And he made his courtiers continually listen to those revilings and attacks against our pure and easy, bright and holy faith, some of which are written in the book called “The Inspiration of Holy Scripture”: and urged and excited them to his own path by speech both set and extempore:— “The guardian gave advice to that fair one: Do not smile on every face, as the rose through the wind. When the advice became past endurance, that coquette Knit her brow, and hung down her head.” time before this a Brahman, named Puruk’hotam, who had written a commentary on the book Khirad-afzā, had had private interviews with him, and he had asked him to invent particular Sanskrit names for all things in existence. And at one time a Brahman, named Debī, who was one of the interpreters of the Mahābhārata, was pulled up the wall of the castle sitting on a chārpāī till he arrived near a balcony, which the Emperor had made his bed-chamber.