CHAPTER PAGE
Title Page
Errata and Addendai
Additional Errata and Addendaxxiiii
Preface To the First Volumexxx
Introduction1
1.Account of Sundry Secret Annunciations and Holy Manifestations Which Took Place Before His Majesty's Auspicious Birth34
2.Account of the Rise of the Great Luminary (the Sun) and of the Diffusion of the Greater Fortune (Jupiter) From the Sky of auspiciousness—the Nativity, To Wit, of His Majesty, the King of Kings and Shadow of God50
3.Description of the Auspicious Horoscope Which Was Cast At the Time of the Glorious Birth In Accordance With the Altitudes of the Greek Astrolabe69
4.Scheme of the Sky-Adorning Nativity of His Majesty, the King of Kings; and Summary of the Stellar Influences, According To the Methods of the Astrologers of India85
5.Description of the Horoscope of Auspicious Characters Which Was Cast By the Erudite of the Age, ‘Aẓdu-d-Daulah Amīr Fatḥu-l-lāh of Shīrāz96
6.Explanation of the Judgments Contained In This Wondrous Horoscope Which Is A Brachial Amulet of the Stars and Heavens, and the Crown-Talisman of Generations and Cycles106
7.Diagram of the Holy Horoscope, Cast By Maulānā Alyās of Ardabīl, In Accordance With the Īlkhānī Tables117
8.Account of the Design of Providence (ḥikmat) In the Difference Between the Greek Philosophers and the Indian Astrologers In the Matter of His Majesty's Auspicious Horoscope119
9.Statement of the Honoured Names of the Blissful Nurses and Spiritually-Moulded Cherishers (Qawābil-i-Rūḥānī-Qawālib) of His Majesty, the King of Kings129
10.Account of the Arrival of His Majesty At the World-Traversing Camp of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshyānī, From the Fort of Amarkoṭ and of the Auspicious Conjunction135
11.Account of Some of the Wonderful Eteostics On the Auspicious Birth of His Majesty, the King of Kings139
12.Thanksgiving of Abū'l-Faẓl, the Author of This Noble Volume, For Having Beheld the Time of This Sovereignty and For Having Long Served His Majesty the King of Kings141
13.Arrangement of the Lofty-Titled Line and List of the Noble Names of the Eminent Ancestors of His Majesty, the King of Kings143
14.Account of Adam (Peace Be Upon Him!)155
15.Her Majesty Ālanquwā, the Cupola of Chastity and Veil of Purity178
16.The Lord of Great Conjunctions, Third Pole of the Universe, Pole of Realm and Religion, Amīr Timur Gūrgān204
17.His Majesty Gītī-Sitānī Firdūs-Makānī ahīru-d-dīn Muḥammad Bābar Pādshāh Ghāzī223
18.Deliberations of His Majesty Gītī-Sitānī (Bābar) and Undertaking By Humāyūn of the Expedition To the Eastward255
19.Of His Majesty Gītī-Sitānī Firdūs-Makānī's Drawing Up His Forces Against Rānā Sāngā, and Uprearing the Standards of Victory259
20.His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshiyānī Naṣīru-d-dīn Muḥammad Humāyūn Pādshāh-i-Ghāzī283
21.Account of Mīrzā Kāmrān's Coming To the Panjāb290
22.March of the Army of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshiyānī For the Subjugation of Bengal, Abandonment of the Design, and Return To the Capital293
23.Account of the Expedition of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshiyānī For the Subjugation of Gujrāt, of the Defeat of Sulān Bahādur, and the Conquest of That Country300
24.Mīrzā ‘askarī Leaves Gujrāt With Rebellious Designs319
25.March of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshiyānī To Subdue Bengal; His Conquest of That Country and Return To the Capital, and What Happened In the Meanwhile326
26.March of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshiyānī's Army From Agra, the Capital, To the Eastern Provinces For Sup­pressing Shēr Khān's Rebellion; the Return After Contests, and the Admonitory Events Which Followed349
27.Receipt of the News of the Auspicious Birth of His Majesty the King of Kings, By His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshyānī, and other Details377
28.Singular Manifestation By His Majesty, the King of Kings, In the Eighth Month From His Nativity's Exaltation-Point (Sharaf), Being the Illuminated Border of Miracles (Karāmāt), and Presage of His Career (Maqāmāt, Lit. Stages Or Stations)384
29.Departure of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshyānī For Qandahār, With the Design of Going thence To the Ḥijāz and of His Resolution To Enter Persia387
30.Brief Account of the Evil-Ending Career of Shēr Khān398
31.Brief Account of M. Ḥaidar402
32.Brief Sketch of Mīrzā Kāmrān's Career407
33.March of the Sacred band of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshyānī To Khurāsān and Media (’irāq), and Account of What Happened On the Way412
34.Return of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshiyānī From Persia, and the Coming of His Majesty the Shāhinshāh From Qandahār To Kābul453
35.Victory of His Majesty the Shāhinshāh In A Wrestle With Ibrāhīm Mīrzā, and His Felicitous Beating of the Drum of Prestige455
36.Arrival of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshiyānī's Army At the Garmsīr and the Taking of the Fort of Bast457
37.Arrival of the Army of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshiyānī At Qandahār, Its Siege and Capture459
38.March of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshiyānī's Army From Qandahār To Conquer Kābul, and Victory Over That Territory471
39.Celebration of the Shāhinshāh's Circumcision, Illuminations; and Manifestation of Marvels By the Tender Plant of Glory's Garden483
40.March of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshiyānī's Army For the Conquest of Badakhshān, the Victory Over That Country, and What Happened During That Time490
41.Unveiling the Mysteries of Design In the Strife-Stirrings of M. Kāmrān, and Account of His Rule Over Kābul498
42.260 March of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshiyānī From Badakhshān To Kābul, and the Siege thereof504
43.Display of Great Marvels On the Part of His Majesty the Shāhinshāh, and the Taking of Kābul511
44.The Putting His Majesty the Shāhinshāh To School, and other Events Which Happened At This Time518
45.Departure of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshiyānī's World-Conquering Army For Badakhshān, and Its Victorious Return To Kābul525
46.March of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshyānī From Kābul To Balkh, and His Return Owing To the Discordance of M. Kāmrān and the Hypocrisy of the officers543
47.March of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshyānī From Kābul, and Fight With M. Kāmrān; and other Instructive Occurrences556
48.Return of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshyānī From Badakhshān, and His Battle With M. Kāmrān, and Arrival In Kābul After the Victory567
49.Assignment of the Village of Carkh To His Majesty the Shāhan-Shāh, and the Prognostications therefrom of the Far-Seeing573
50.Expedition of His Majesty Jahānbānī To Extinguish another Time the Seditious Flames of M. Kāmrān576
51.Another Expedition of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshyānī To Quell the Disturbance Caused By M. Kāmrān; and the Martyrdom of M. Hindāl581
52.Assignment of the Territory of Ghaznīn To His Majesty the Shāhinshāh, and Elevation of Some To His Service586
53.Expedition of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshyānī From Bihsūd Against the Afghān Clans,—amongst Whom Was the Ambush of M. Kāmrān's Strifes,— and Flight of the Latter To India593
54.His Majesty the Shāhinshāh Goes To Ghaznīn, and Exaltation of That Place By His Dwelling there596
55.Expedition of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshyānī To Bangash, and Chastisement of the Rebellious; Rearing the Standard of Intention For India; Capture of M. Kāmrān, and Return To Kābul, Etc598
56.His Majesty Jahānbānī's Journey To Qandahār and His Return therefrom610
57.Brief Account of the Events and Misfortunes Which Took Place In Hindūstān During the Days of Confusion615
58.Expedition of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jannat-āshyānī For the Conquest of India, and Victory thereof By the Dominion-Increasing Auspices of the King of Kings (Akbar)620
59.Appearance of Great Marvels; and the Announcement of Good News On the Part of His Majesty the Shāhinshāh; and other Fortunate Occurrences629
60.Expedition of His Majesty the Shāhinshāh To the Panjāb In Accordance With the Orders of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jinnat Āshayānī639
61.Brief Account of His Majesty Jahanbānī Jainnat Āshayānī, and Description of Some of His Remarkable Inventions and Regulations642
62.Incidence of A Flash of Indication of A Journey To the World of Holiness On the Inward Mirror of His Majesty Jahānbānī Jinnat Āshiyānī, and His Departure For That World652
63.Of the Dominion-Increasing Acts of His Majesty the Shāhinshāh From the Time of His Felicitous Setting Out For the Panjāb Till His Sacred Accession661
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