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# The Book of Akbar 6.60

Akbarnāma 6.60

- **Language:** Persian

### [6.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama.6.60)

اگرچه او جد شانزدهم آنحضرت است از روی شماره، اما درین میان هفت کوکب برج عصمت اند که نور این شهنشاه گیتی افروز در جبههآ حال آنها کمال ظهور کرده این هفت تن در میان این هژده کس ببزرگ و گیتی آرائی امتیاز تمام داشتهاند، و هشتم این گروه والاشکوه ذات اقدس حضرت شاهنشاهیست که نور معدلت ایشان آفاقرا منور دارد و در سلسلهآ علیهآ این هزده بزرگ این مظهر کمال قدرت ایزدیرا خلعت گرانمایهآ سلطنت صوری و معنوی ارزانی داشته نوربخش عالم باطن و ظاهر ساختهاند. بر متفحصان دقایق آثار صدق این معنی مخفی نیست چنانچه مجملی از کمالات این گروه والا درین شگرفنامه گذارش خواهد یافت، و بر هوشمندان بیداربخت حقیقت این سخن بظهور خواهد رسید. و هرکه امروز گرامی احوال این بزرگان فرخندهمآلرا بنظر دقت و

> These seven out of the fifteen have been distinguished for greatness and world-adornment, and the eighth of the noble band is his Majesty the King of Kings. The light of their rectitude has made the horizons brilliant, and in the noble series of the fifteen great ones, there has been given the glorious vesture of spiritual and temporal sovereignty to this perfect witness of Divine Power, and he has been made light-bestower of the inner and outer worlds. This explanation is not hidden from the subtle investigators of real significations. On this account a synopsis of the perfections of this series will be found in this noble volume, and  
> — Henry Beveridge 1897, The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II

> the prudent and alert of mind will get proof of these words. Whoever at the present day shall peruse with the eyes of discernment and knowledge, the account of these illustrious magnates and understand the office of the Caliph of the Age, and become acquainted with the stages of the degrees of greatness of the Lord of the World, will applaud the exposition. Away, Away! I am no word-seller, seeking for approving glances from men. What more choice blessing can there be than this, that my truth-electing heart has been made a fount of true impressions, and that my scrutinising reason has become an alighting-stage for these divine subtleties? With these night-gleaming jewels I frame glorious earrings as abiding ornaments for the understanding ears of the fortunate lovers of wisdom.  
> — Henry Beveridge 1897, The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II

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## Translations (1)

- [The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.9.11) — Henry Beveridge 1897, English

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