80 Kavi Raj Sliyamal DaB^Birtliday of the Emperor [No. 1, 
V. n. to awake. 
I (from ) s. evening, 
twiliglit. 
s. ridge in a cliili field. 
V. a. to uproot. 
^ 1 : 5:5 (liatata) (= s. 
lialf-brother. 
^tl5l 5 . cloth hand-bag. 
5 . verandah. 
s. ladder. 
f s. jointship in food and 
5151151151 I business, commensa- 
lity. Pers. 
eating together. 
^5i<l time of unyoking 
the plough, about 10 A. M. 
V. n. to decline, to diminish ; 
it was past noon. 
s. ploughman. 
s. the time when people 
stop ploughing to take their 
morning meal ; about 10 A. M. 
7 
j here, in this place. 
pron. that. 
si' 
^’^TC?r prep, with, together with. 
I? (= ) s. noise. 
adu. there, in that place. 
C?C1^ pron. he, she. 
cLilv. lying on one’s back, 
supine. 
C^Tptf = C^Tf% g. V. 
Birthday of the Emperor Jaldluddin Miihammad Ahhar.—By Kavi Raj 
Shyamal Das, M. R. A. S. and F. R. Hist. Society. 
[Translated by Babn Rama Prasad.] 
I. Views of different authorities. 
Ill the course of my constant references to the histories of India to 
gather information for my forthcoming work on Rajpiitana, I have 
found out that Persian authors are not unanimous as to the date of 
Akbar’s birth. 
(I.) Abul Fazl, Akbar’s Minister says :—“ Hamidah Band Begam, 
queen of Humayun was delivered of prince Akbar at Amarkot on Sun¬ 
day night, the 5th Rajjab A. H. 949* (== Kartik Sudi 6th, Samvat, 1599 
= 15th October, A. D. 1542).” 
But he is not certain of the truth of this : he says that two astro¬ 
logers (probably not living when Abul Fazl wrote,) Maulana Chand and 
Bias were present at Amarkot when the prince was born ; and he gives 
several horoscopes prepared according to the Greek (Yunani) and 
Hindu systems of astrology of the prince, which do not agree, some of 
them marking the sun in Libra and others in Scorpio; some mentioning 
* Akbarnamah, Yol. I, pp. 31—53. 
