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The A-in-i-Akbari by Abul Fazl Allami. A Gazetteer and Administrative Manual of Akbar’s Empire and Past History of India

1949

I have also economised space and saved the reader from frequent unnecessary interruptions by the omission of Jarrett's notes on the emendations of the printed Persian text made by him (except in a few cases of vital importance.) The numberless variant readings which encumbered the pages of his second olume have been mostly cleared away by the acceptance of the true forms in the body of the book a [...] The third volume of the Ain-i-Akbari is an encyclopxdia of the religion philosophy and sciences of the Hindus preceded by the chronology and cosmography of the Muslims as required by literary convention for comparison with the Hindu ideas on the same subjects. [...] Regarded as a statistician no detaiis from the revenues of a province to the cost of a pinapple from the organisation of an army and the grades and duties of the nobility to the shape of a candlestick and the price of a curry-comb are beyond his microscopic and patient investigation : as an annalist the movments and conduct of his sovereign are surrounded with the ipeccability that fe [...] For this reason the prince regent on the throne of felicity in the 29th year of the Ilahi Divine Era ' for the purpose of refresh;ag that plesure-ground of dominion and revenue directea its irrigation and rendered blooming and lush the palace-garden of the State. [...] By this means and with the aid of instruments such as the armillary sphere and others double-limbed and bi-tublar 4 and the quadrant of altitude ' the astrolabe the globe and others the face of astronomy was illumined and the computation of the heavens the position of the stars the extent of their orbits in length and breadth their distance from each other and from the earth the comparative
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Pages
428
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146869
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-viii H.S. Jarrett view
‘A In I
1-420 H.S. Jarrett view

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