Mughal Administration c12.s5.4

c12.s5.4

In imitation of Akbar, his contemporary, the Bijapuri Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II, took the title of *Jagat-guru*. He is popularly said to have inclined to the Hindu faith and practices, lived on milk and even worshipped the Hindu god Narsoba in a small temple on the western edge of the inner ditch of the citadel of his capital. His Muslim historian has taken pains to rebut the charge that he apostatized from Islam (*Busatin-us-Salatin*, 259-260, 264), but admits that in popular speech he was called *Jagat-guru*. [Also Bombay Gazetteer, xxiii, 636.]