[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) › 347.5 # The Book of Akbar 347.5 The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 347.5 - **Language:** English ### [347.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.347.5) One of the instructive occurrences which might be a guide to those astray in the wilderness of denial, and which occurred in this year was the killing of the camel-driver’s son. As the Creator is surety for the administration of the sovereignty of this Khedive of the horizons, the superintendents of fate were at work, in spite of the enthroned one of the Caliphate’s being under the veil of insouciance, and sent the opponents of dominion-conjoined with eternity to the abyss of destruction, and gave every one their appropriate punishment. At one time they bestowed power and victory on the imperial servants, as for instance in the victory over Himu and the capture of the Fort of Mankot, etc. At another time they struck the enemies with shame and sent them to the wilderness of vagabondage, as in the ruin of M. Sulaiman. At another time they stirred up strife among the black-thoughted opponents, so that they attacked each other and reached the abode of annihilation, as in the catastrophe of this camel-driver’s son. The details of his descent to nothingness, which was a great stroke of good fortune, are as follows: When ‘Ali Quli Khan showed a semblance of submission and cheatingly put him away from himself for a time, that low wretch went on spending his days in that neighbourhood in arrogance, until one day he went to the town of Surharpur which was in the fief of ‘Abdu-r-rahman Beg, the son of Maqid Beg Duldai, who had been a favourite courtier of H.M. - [Previous: 347.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.347.4) - [Next: 347.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.347.6) - [Up: 347](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.347) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.347.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.347.5) · Pramāṇa