The Book of Akbar 188

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Singular manifestation by his Majesty, the King of Kings, in the eighth month from his nativity’s exaltation-point (sharaf), being the illuminated border of miracles (kardmdt), and presage of his career (maqdmat, lit. stages or stations).
In the pages of Divine knowledge, which are “the guarded tablets” from and for eternity, it is laid down that when the diadem of distinction is set on the marvellous head of a world-adorning creature in the temporal and spiritual enthroning-room, there are emitted, from the auspicious birth-hour of that glorious one, flashings and wonders (bawdriq-i-hdldt-u-khawdriq-i-'dddt) from the folded pages of his record, each of them a mysterious herald loudly proclaiming in the reason’s ear of mankind the glorious progression of his power, and by such revelations augmenting the felicity of mortals.
One of the marvellous proofs of this is that when seven months complete had elapsed from his Majesty, the king of kings’, auspicious birth, and when he had in his fortune and felicity entered on the eighth, a strange circumstance occurred. On an evening which was seized of the light of fortune’s morn, Jiji Anaga—that cupola of chastity—was nursing the first fruit of the garden of holiness, and grieving over the opposition to her by that veil of chastity—Maham Anaga, and by many others. She was very sad because they had represented to his Majesty Jahanbani Jannat-ashyani that Mir Ghaznavi’s wife (i.e., herself) was practising incantations so that his Majesty, the prince of mankind, should not accept anyone's milk but her own. At this time, when none else was present, his Majesty, seeing that there was privacy, became vocal, and Messiah-like