[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) › 52.5 # The Book of Akbar 52.5 The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 52.5 - **Language:** English ### [52.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.52.5) Leo is the Sign immediately preceding Virgo, and if the difference of the Hindu and Persian calculations be 17°, the cusp according to the former, should apparently be 20° Leo, for Maulana Cand's horoscope brought out the cusp of the Ascendant as 7° Virgo. We are not told what Tables Fathu-l-lah used and are left in the dark as to his modus operandi. The difference between his calculations and those of Maulānā Cand was apparently, about viz., from 28° 36' Leo to 7° Virgo. If, as A. F. does, we take the rate of precession to be one degree in 70 years, Fathu-l-lah must have used Tables made about 600 years before Ulugh Beg. This would give a date of about 830 A.D., which approximates to the Baghdad observations of the Khalif Māmūn referred to in the Ain (Jarrett II. 3.) If we take the more correct rate of precession, viz., one degree in 72 years, we get a still closer approximation for 8½° = 612 years and this deducted from 1434 = 822 A.D. - [Previous: 52.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.52.4) - [Next: 52.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.52.6) - [Up: 52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.52) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.52.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.akbar.akbarnama~en-beveridge.52.5) · Pramāṇa