The Book of Akbar 18: DESCRIPTION OF THE AUSPICIOUS HOROSCOPE WHICH WAS CAST AT THE TIME OF THE GLORIOUS BIRTH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ALTITUDES OF THE GREEK ASTROLABE.

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Approach heaven-weighing observer, Regard with understanding the connexion of the spheres, Look at the beautiful horoscope of the Lord of conjunction, Behold the auspicious charter of two worlds, Contemplate this glorious rescript, Fortune upon fortune, light upon light.
When the victory-grasping standards were leaving the fort of Amarkot Maulana Cand, the astrologer, who was possessed of great acuteness and thorough dexterity in the science of the astrolabe, in the scrutinizing of astronomical tables, the construction of almanacs, and the interpretations of the stars,—was deputed to be in attendance at the portals of the cupola of chastity (Miryam Makani, Akbar's mother), in order that he might observe the happy time and ascertain exactly the period of birth. He reported in writing to the exalted camp that, according to altitudes taken by the Greek astrolabe, and by calculations based on the Gurgani tables (Canon of Ulugh Beg) the figure of the nativity was as follows:—