The Emperor Akbar: A Contribution Towards the History of India in the 16th Century, المجلد 2Thacker, Spink & Company, 1890 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Abdullah Abdurrahím Abhang Abul Fazl Afgháns Ágrah Ahmad Ahmadábád Ahmadnagar Akbar amírs amongst army Asad Beg Ásír attacked Azíz Badakhshán Badáoní Bahádur Barár Barodah Báyazíd Bengal Bíjápúr Blochmann Burhán camp Chalmers Chalmers II Chand chief command conquest court Dak'hin Dányál Dás death defeated despatched Dihlí divine elephants Elliot Emperor empire Faizí father Fathpúr Síkrí favour Fazl's fell fight Firishtah force Gujrát Hakím Hindú Hindústán horse Husain I'timád Ibráhím imperial Islám Ismá'íl jágír Jahángír Kábul Kambay Kashmír Khán Khán i A'zam Khán-khánán Khwajah king Kokah Láhor letter Ma'çúm Majesty Makkah Málwah Mán Singh Mír Mírzá Mughuls Muhammad Muhammad Hakim Muhammadan Murád Muzaffar Nizamuddín Panjáb Patan province Qásim Qulij Khán Quraish Qutbuddín Rái Rájah Rájpúts Raushání rebels royal Salím sent Sháh Shahbáz Shahrukh Shaikh Shaikh Faríd Shíráz sovereign Srinagar Sulaimán Sultán Sunní throne tion Todar Mall took troops Túrán Uzbaks Ya'qúb Yúsuf Yúsufzaí
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 383 - Thee, and in every language I hear spoken, people praise Thee. Polytheism and Islam feel after Thee. Each religion says, "Thou art one, without equal." If it be a mosque, people murmur the holy prayer, and if it be a Christian Church, people ring the bell from love to Thee. Sometimes I frequent the Christian cloister, and sometimes the mosque. But it is Thou whom I search from temple to temple.
الصفحة 262 - His Majesty looked at it, and ordered me to prepare and take him a pipeful. He began to smoke it, when his physician approached and forbade his doing so. But his Majesty was graciously pleased to say...
الصفحة 261 - Adil Khan had given me a betel bag of very superior workmanship ; this I filled with fine tobacco, such, that if one leaf be lit, the whole will continue burning. I arranged all elegantly on a silver tray. I had a silver tube made to keep the stem in, and that too was covered with purple velvet.
الصفحة 260 - ... courtiers used to disperse, assembling again when they expected His Majesty to re-appear. That evening he happened to come out sooner than usual, to hear the news from the Dakhin, and at first found none of the servants in the palace. When he came near the throne and couch, he saw a luckless lamplighter, coiled up like a snake, in a careless death-like sleep, close to the royal couch. Enraged at the sight, he ordered him to be thrown from the tower, and he was dashed into a thousand pieces.
الصفحة 263 - When the Emperor heard me dispute and reason with the physician, he was astonished, and being much pleased gave me his blessing, and then said to Khan-i' Azam, " Did you hear how wisely Asad spoke ? Truly, we must not reject a thing that has been adopted by the wise men of other nations merely because we cannot find it in our books ; or how shall we progress ? " The physician was going to say more, when His Majesty stopped him and called for the priest. The priest ascribed many good qualities to...
الصفحة 263 - We do not want to follow the Europeans, and adopt a custom, which is not sanctioned by our own wise men, without trial." I said, " It is a strange thing, for every custom in the world has been new at one time or other ; from the days of Adam till now, they have gradually been invented. When a new thing is introduced among a people, and becomes well known in the world...
الصفحة 422 - Azam and Raja Man Singh sat down, and calling all the nobles together, began to consult with them, and went so far as to say, " The character of the high and mighty Prince Sultan Salim is well known, and the Emperor's feelings towards him are notorious; for he by no means wishes him to be his successor. We must all agree to place Sultan Khusru upon the throne.
الصفحة 431 - Considering all the circumstances of time and place, Akbar has always appeared to me among sovereigns what Shakespeare 'was among poets ; and, feeling as a citizen of the world, I reverenced the marble slab that covers his bones more, perhaps, than I should that over any other sovereign with whose history I am acquainted.* there was only overhead a rich tent with a Semiane [scil.
الصفحة 305 - He replied that he was a devoted servant of Your Majesty, and considered himself highly favoured that he had seen Your Majesty's good-will and favour. I replied, " His Majesty's kindness towards you is great, he looks upon you as a most intimate friend, and reckons you among his confidential servants ; the greatest proof of which is, that he has sent a man of rank to you.
الصفحة 380 - Prince wrote to request the honour of an audience, and proceeded so far as Etawa for the purpose ; but here doubts were suggested to him by some ill-inclined persons, and he feared to advance any further. His Majesty was no sooner made aware of this circumstance, than he wrote to the Prince, that " if he were earnest in his wish to pay his respects, he ought to display his confidence by doing so alone, and dismiss his attendants to their...