[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) › 302.4 # The Book of Akbar 302.4 The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 302.4 - **Language:** English ### [302.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.302.4) If it were not for this reason, how could the wide domain of the knowledge, piety and devotion of this nursling of the light of glory permit that such censure of the decrees of Providence should contract the law of submission? At length by the assistance of far-reaching reason he conveyed himself to the asylum of patience and employed himself in alms-giving and in other good works which may benefit those who have travelled to the abiding world. Poets and sages composed elegies and chronograms. Among them was Khwaja Husain of Merv who made a tarhibband in an elegy, about that cupola of pardon, some lines of which are as follows:— Verse. O heart, thou too must hear the sound of death. Death's morning must blow on thy life's ascension. As the order for tasting death is for all men. Be sure that the sherbet of death must be drunk. This name of life which they imposed upon you. Is a name that must be carried on to the side of death. Be not proud of this rose and garden of life. Autumn’s breeze must blow on this rose and garden, Thou hast heard with thine own ears that such an one remaineth not Others’s ears must receive tidings of thee likewise. Mir cAbdu-l-Hai found this chronogram Verse. Alas, Alas ! My king fell from the roof. (963). Maulana Mas'aud of Hisar composed this:— Verse. Humayun Padshah was united to God. (963). But this was by writing the sacred name (Humayun) without alif. Maulana Qasim Kahi made this chronogram:— Verse. Humayun Padshah fell from the roof. (902). - [Previous: 302.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.302.3) - [Next: 302.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.302.5) - [Up: 302](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.302) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.302.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.302.4) · Pramāṇa