The Book of Akbar 127.2

127.2

Tughlaq Timur Khan, b. Isan Bugha Khan, b. Dava Khan, b. Baraq Khan, b. Isun Tava, b. Mutakan, b. Caghatai Khan, b. Cingiz Khan. Maulana Hisami Qarakuli recorded the date of the noble birth as follows. Verse. Since on 6 Muharram was born that bounteous king, His birth's chronogram is also 6 Muharram (shash-i-Muharram.) Though the chronogram be of marvellous coincidence and unfathomable in its significance, there is something stranger yet, viz., the chronogram is in six letters which are reckoned by the masters of computation as a lucky number and also the phrase (lafz) shash harf and the pips (naqsh) ‘adad-i-khair both indicate the date. Another wonderful thing is that the units, tens and hundreds of the date are all the same (8-8-8), thus pointing to equability of dispositions. His life corresponded to these mysteries of birth. That exemplar of high saints, Khwaja Ahrar himself with his own bounty-shedding tongue gave him—the auspicious one—the names of Zahiru-d-din Muhammad, but as this weighty appellation with its majesty and sublimity, was not readily pronounceable or current on the tongues of the Turks, the name of Babar was also given to him.