The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 8.1.1

8.1.1

The passing of the great star that illumines the world into the constellation of Aries took place on the night of Saturday, the 14th Zi-l-hijja, in Hijra 1017 (21st March, 1609), and New Year's Day that made brilliant the world began with good auspices and rejoicing. On Friday, the 5th Muharram, in the year 1018, Hakim 'Ali died. He was an unrivalled physician; he had derived much profit from Arabic sciences. He had written a commentary on the Canon (of Avicenna) in the time of my revered father. He had greater diligence than understanding, just as his appearance was better than his disposition, and his acquirements better than his talents; on the whole he was bad-hearted, and of an evil spirit. On the 20th Safar I dignified Mirza Barkhurdar with the title of Khan 'Alam. They brought from the neighbourhood of Fathpur a water-melon, greater than any I had ever seen. I ordered them to weigh it, and it came to 33 seers. On Monday, the 19th Rabi'u-l-awwal, the feast of my annual lunar weighing was arranged in the palace of my revered mother; a part of the money was divided among the women who had assembled there on that day.