[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Mughals (1526–1857)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal) › [Akbar (1556–1605)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar) › [The Book of Akbar](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama) › 6.115 # The Book of Akbar 6.115 Akbarnāma 6.115 - **Language:** Persian ### [6.115](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama.6.115) # قطبی که بقطبین فلک داشت پیام شیران هوس را بادب کرده لجام # در بیشهآ دل هزبر سرمستخرام دریاکش عشق ژنده فیل احمد جام (قدس سره) اتفاق افتاد. بحسب ارتفاع شعری شامیه که سی وشش درجه بود بعد از گذشتن هشت ساعت و بیست دقیقه از اول شب هشتم آبان ماه جلالی سال چهارصد و شصت و چارم، موافق نوزدهم اسفندارمذماه قدیمی سال زهصد و یازدهم، مطابق شب یکشنبه پنجم رجب سال نهصد و چهل و نهم هلالی، ششم ماه کاتک سال هزار و پانصد و نوزدهم هندوی، شانزدهم تشرین الاول رومی سال هزار و هشتصد و پنجاه و چهارم، چهار ساعت و بیست و دو دقیقه از شب مذکور مانده بود در شهر کرامت بهر و حصار سعادت انحصار امرکوت که از اقلیم دوم است و عرضش از خط استوا بیست و پنج درجه و طول آن از جزایر خالدات صد و پنج درجه است در هنگامی که موکب عالی روی توجه بتسخیر ولایت تته داشت و هودج اقبال در آن حصن دولت و حصار سعادت بجهت قرب زمان اشراق این نور گیتی آرای توقف فرموده بود. > Verse. Pole which salutes the two poles of heaven. Bridling by discipline the tigers of lust. Stalking as a lion in the forest of the heart. Ocean-drinker of love, the premier elephant, Ahmad-i-jam, (fol. 148) the date of his death is fixed by the chronogram Ahmad Jami quddisa sirruhu. (See Richardson 718 a.) The passage occurs at 148a. of Add. 7607, Rieu’s Cat. I. 43c. and the words are \[Arabic text\]. The letters give the date 536, viz. A = 1 J = 3 q = 100 r = 200 h = 8 a = 1 d = 4 h = 5 m = 40 m = 40 s = 60 — d = 4 i = 10 s = 60 536 Total. There is an account of the saint in Dara Shikoh’s Safinatu-l-auliya and there the writer—the eldest son of Shah Jahan—refers to his great-great-grandmother, Hamida Banu’s descent from Ahmad-i-jam. But the fullest account of Ahmad is in Jami’s Nafahatu-l-uns, Jami being a townsman of the saint. The life will be found in Lees’ ed. of the Nafahatu (Cal. 1859, 405-417). Ahmad-i-jam is said to have converted 300,000 persons, and to have had 42 children, of whom 17 survived him. His Diwan is in the B. M., and he wrote other works. There is an explanation of the term Zhanda-pil by M. Pictet, in the Journal Asiatique for 1843, (Series IV., Vol. II., 141). He derives it from the Sanscrit canda. According to Fraser (Journey into Khorasan, Lond. 1825, App. B., 39), it means Elephant-reviver or animator, and was given to the saint because he, at the cost of his own life, restored to life the Governor’s elephant. > — Henry Beveridge 1897, The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II - [Previous: 6.103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama.6.103) - [Next: 6.129](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama.6.129) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama.6) ## Translations (1) - [The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.12.2) — Henry Beveridge 1897, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama.6.115](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama.6.115) · Pramāṇa