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# The Book of Akbar 51: CHAPTER VIII.

The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 51

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### [51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.51)

and will perform the duties of government and of the administration of the world.  
It is a remarkable circumstance that all those qualities which astrologers have come to know by toil and meditation, are read by simple-minded persons who know nothing of the diagrams of stellar masteries, by dint of their own insight, on the forehead-page of his Majesty's career, though they have humbly to acknowledge the inability of language to expound them.  
Verse.  
Thy attributes have made tongues incoherent, Thy glorious personality has changed certainty into conjecture.

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