[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Mughals (1526–1857)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal) › [Akbar (1556–1605)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar) › [Akbarnāma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama) › [The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge) › 205.2 # The Book of Akbar 205.2 The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 205.2 - **Language:** English ### [205.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.205.2) The Khwaja recognised this as a great opportunity and hastened to accept service. He poured out every thing he had in his store, in cash and in kind, among the troops. His Majesty Jahanbani received him with favour and committed to his prudent judgment the duties of the mir-sdmdni-i-sarkdr-i-hhd§a. His Majesty spent several days in this region giving charming counsels and instructions to his faithful followers, and showing by heart-touching argument the world's faithlessness and the instability of external circumstances. He turned back their secular spirits from the pursuit of such things and directed them to the true goal and to the real point which it behoves the student of the masters of mind to pay attention to. His Majesty's lofty soul was engrossed by the thought that as the things belonging to detachment and seclusion increase day by day, he should seek some lonely corner, and withdrawing himself, outwardly and inwardly, from other matters should give himself up to God alone. But his nobleness and humanity did not allow of his saddening the hearts of the followers of his fortunes by such mortification of desires. - [Previous: 205.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.205.1) - [Next: 205.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.205.3) - [Up: 205](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.205) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.205.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.205.2) · Pramāṇa