Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c12.42

v1.c12.42

Tod bears witness to the humanizing effect on the Rājputs of the worship of this god, whom he calls “ the Apollo of Braj,” the holy land of Krishna near Mathura. He also asserts that the Emperor Akbar favoured the worship of Krishna, a feeling shared by his successors Jahāngīr and Shāh Jahān. Akbar, in his search for a new faith to supersede Islām, of which he was parcus cultor et infrequens, dallied with Hindu Pandits, Parsi priests, and Christian missionaries, and he was doubtless well informed about the sensuous ritual of the temple of Nāthdwāra.²