The Book of Akbar 352: BEGINNING OF THE 5TH YEAR ILAHI FROM THE SACRED ACCESSION OF THE SHAHINSHAH, viz., THE YEAR AMARDAD OF THE FIRST CYCLE.

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Again the heart-expanding spring came with a thousand adornments of the world, and the fifth year Ilahi, from the auspicious accession of the Shahinshah, which is the year Amardad, began with glory and splendour. In the night known as Monday, after four hours and nine minutes, on 13 Jumada-al-akhiri 967, 12th March 1560, the world-warming sun cast its rays on the sign of Aries and reported to the feeders at the table of the elements the arrival of the new year. The flowers of fortune bloomed anew and from every leaf there came out afresh before the eyes of the gazers on the garden of sovereignty the diploma of dominion. The market-day of abundance was born for the new-comers to the garden of youth, and the apathetic melancholy of those in the valley of frenzy (of love) was stirred up to activity.
Verse.
The earth was of flowers, and the grass-plot of rose-bushes, The rose’s lamp was brightened by the breeze, The violet twisted her curl And made a knot in the heart of the bud. The rose and tulip oped their luminous veils Regarding from afar the eye of the narcissus, At the voice of the francolin and the dance of the pheasant The cypress grew nimble and rose to his feet The carpet of flowers was spread on the garden Lovers came out into the fields.