The Book of Akbar 319.1

319.1

As the world assumed splendour from the justice-illuminating sovereignty of this nursling of divine light, and the terrene and terrestrials uttered rejoicings with the tongue of speech and of ecstacy, and gratefully expressed a vernal joy, and the outward and inward world received a new glory and lustre, the spring-time of soul and body burst forth into invocations of blessings. Twenty-five days after the auspicious time of the accession, viz., on Wednesday 28 Rabi’-as-sani 963, there was the world-illuminating New Year, and the Sultan of the East confronted Aries with his world-adorning banners. Verse. The world was freshened by the spring-breeze The rain increased the glory of the earth The sun joyful of soul, and a lover of joy Tore in his delight the sheaths (lit., skin) of the flowers. The rose (gul) brought out of the clay (gil) Kais’s throne The violet put on peacock (Tāūs) plumes A young spring burgeoned on every bough And his scattering hand held every flower, As the great luminary gave new spirit to the age’s sorrowful ones, so did the joyful news of the Shāhinshāh’s sacred accession give thousands of life-conferring messages to the discerning and to the expectants cognisant of mysteries. The outer world received happiness, and the inner world glory. The visible and invisible kingdoms harmonised and heaped radiance upon radiance.