The Book of Akbar 309.5

309.5

The interpretation of the good points in this horoscope, and the wonders of it, are beyond the power of description. Acute scrutineers of celestial tables and conners of degrees on the surfaces of astrolabes know by the schedule of thought and the calendar of intelligence how few of such great and greatness-conferring hours, in which so many everlasting blessings are infolded, have occurred since the time of the first motions of the heavens and the constellations and since the conduct of the world of mankind, which is the quintessence of creation, has been in the charge of the heavenly bodies. One of the poets has said with respect to the chronogram of the glorious accession. Verse. The pulpit was exalted by the king’s khutba. And by a just mintage deeds became golden, By Akbar Shah’s sitting on sovereignty’s throne There came the accession-chronogram Naṣrat-i-Akbar (great victory, 963). And the hemistich “The accession of the world-protecting lord” also points to the year ending in bliss. And the words Kām-bakhsh also give the date of this time which is twinned with auspiciousness, and were written by the dedicatory pen of Maulānā Nūru-d-dīn Tarkhān.