Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s1.26

c5.s1.26

⁵ Compare the doctrine of expediency vs. the teachings of the Qur’an in B. 400-1. Compare the gift of his sovereignty by Humayun to a water-carrier and slave and Kamran’s criticism of the act, T.W., 25b and A.N.I., 160. Compare the amusing story of a Sultan of Bengal signing away Isfahan to a visiting merchant and how his councillors, who dared not remind him that Isfahan was not included in his dominions, met the situation, Raverty 579. See remarks of Barani in B(MS.) 114—compare as a parallel advice of Occleve to Prince Henry in S. III, 500 : that ‘Lawe is both lookke and key of suerte’. Compare also T.W., 106 where Humayun reminds his followers of the magnificent example of sacrifice shown by the 12,000 guards of the Safavi monarch Isma’il who jumped into a ravine to fetch his falling handkerchief and thus perished to a man.