The Book of Akbar 54.1

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lightsome day of his creation arrived, at once was Heaven envious of Earth for his passing, and Earth exultant at his august advent. The status of knowledge became exalted, and with rites which are the divine Light—already was sight and outward show, was that holy bathed and composed by the ministers of radiance-darting, chaste, rose-bodied nymphs. Even-tempered, spiritually-minded nurses swathed the divine form and heavenly boy in auspicious swaddling-bands, purer than angelic veils, and laid him with respect and reverence in the sacred arms and bosoms of pure-dispositioned ones. And then his honied lips being brought in contact with the benign breasts, his mouth was sweetened by the life-giving fluid. Verse. He drew forth milk by the bounty of his Milk and sugar were commingled. It was not milk he drank from the breast ’Twas water from the Sun’s fountain that he As the nobly-born Shamsu-d-dīn Muhammad of a good service at Kanauj, his Majesty Jahānbānī shortly before the rising of this light of fortune, in recompense of his deed, made him hopeful of with the majestic boon, that his high-souled, who has now the lofty title of Anaga—the fruit of the spring-tide head-dress (mi‘jar) and mantle of distinction, by the blissful charge of the service of nursing this newly and kindly.