[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) › 380.2 # The Book of Akbar 380.2 The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 380.2 - **Language:** English ### [380.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.380.2) When the victorious troops, who had girded up their loins for the conquest of Malwa, approached that country and ascertained the infatuation and arrogance of Baz Bahadar, who had exercised his power with highhandedness and tyranny, they drew up their ranks in proper array. Adham Khan and Pir Muhammad Khan were in the centre, ‘Abdullah Khan and a number of others were on the right wing, Qiya Khan Kang and others were on the left. The vanguard was commanded by Shah Muhammad Khan of Qandahar and Sadiq Khan. From innate insouciance Baz Bahādur did not concern himself with public affairs. Wine, which experts have prescribed, in small quantities and at fixed times, in consideration of the arrangement and composition of their bodily elements, for certain temperaments and constitutions, was made by this man, who was immersed in bestial pleasures, a cause of increased folly, and he was continually indulging in it, without distinguishing night from day or day from night, and was continually using it. Music and melody which the wise and farsighted have employed at times of lassitude and depression, such as arise from the press of business and the burthen of humanity, as a means of lightening the mind and of cheerfulness, were regarded by this scoundrel as a serious business, and he spent upon them all his precious hours—for which no exchange is possible. In the arrogance of infatuation he wrought works of inauspiciousness, and regarded not what has been said. Verse. - [Previous: 380.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.380.1) - [Next: 380.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.380.3) - [Up: 380](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.380) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.380.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.380.2) · Pramāṇa