The Book of Akbar 133.1
The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 133.1
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133.1
It is a fixed law that when the world-adorning Creator designs to reveal a unique jewel from its casings, he brings strange things to pass so that a man being tried in such ways by word and deed may become glorious in the minds of all for firmness and foreseeing. Among these, there was this strange circumstance that with all this victory and largesse, there was a defect of similitude (qillat-i-mujānasat) which worked a want of intimacy (‘illat-i-‘adam-i-muwānasat) with the people of India.