The Book of Akbar 56: Account of some of the wonderful eteostics on the auspicious birth of his Majesty, the king of kings.
The Akbarnama (H. Beveridge), vols. I–II 56
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Ingenious men made eteostics in prose and verse on the noble nativity and composed gratulatory odes. They tendered them for acceptance at the Court of his Majesty Jahanbani which was the assay-room of human jewels, and received glorious gifts.
Among them, this chronogram by Maulana Nuru-d-din Tarkhan received the palm of applause and approbation.
Quatrain.
When the fateful pen of destiny wrote the record. It added a comment to the immortal verse And wrote, “From the birth-boon of the king of kings, “The date is Shahinshah Jahangir.”
And this wonderfully apposite one of the learned of the Age.
Laus Deo! there has come into being He who is the world’s epitome, A king greater than the kings of the Earth,