The Book of Akbar 125.5

125.5

Akhsikat which is known as Akhsi, is one of the seven towns of Farghana. Mirzā ‘Umar Shaikh had made it his capital. The town was on a precipitous ravine and all the buildings were on its edge. As fate would have it, on Monday 4th Ramazan, 899 (9th June, 1494), he was sitting near his pigeon house which was one of these buildings, watching the motions of his birds, when an attendant reported that the precipice was breaking away. The Mirza at once got up and had put one foot into its slipper but had not had time to put in the other, when the whole precipice gave way and the terrace fell down. The Mīrza’s outward form fell to the bottom but in reality, he ascended to the zenith. He was then 39 years old, having been born in 860, at Samarqand. (This last fact has been mentioned already.) Be it known that Farghana belongs to the fifth climate and is on