Ingenious men made eteostics in prose and verse on the noble nativity and composed gratulatory odes. They tendered them for acceptance at the Court of his Majesty Jahānbānī which was the assay-room of human jewels, and received glorious gifts.

Among them, this chronogram by Maulānā Nūru-d-dīn Tarkhān* received the palm of applause and approbation.

Quatrain.

When the fateful pen of destiny wrote the record,
It added a comment to the immortal verse
And wrote, “From the birth-boon of the world's king of kings
The date is Shāhinshāh Jahāngīr.”* (World-seizing king of kings.)

And this wonderfully apposite chronogram was discovered by one of the learned of the Age.

Verse.

Laus Deo! there has come into being
He who is the world's epitome,
A king greater* than the kings of the Earth,

Akbar his name, Jalāl (Glorious) his title.
The year, the month, nycthemeron of birth
Are “Sunday night, five Rajab.”* (949 H.)