History of India . ties andthreatened violence, she appointed an hour to receivehim, put on her most splendid dress, on which shesprinkled the richest perfumes, and lay down on acouch with her mantle drawn over her face. Her at-tendants thought that she had fallen asleep, but onendeavouring to awake her on the approach of thekhan, they found she had taken poison and was alreadydead. Nor was this all. Other ladies of Baz Baha-durs harem were in Adhams possession, and whenAkbar himself rode to Malwa in hot haste and bitter AKBARS PEESONALITY 9 shame to stop Ms lieutenants atrocities, Maham Anaga
History of India . ties andthreatened violence, she appointed an hour to receivehim, put on her most splendid dress, on which shesprinkled the richest perfumes, and lay down on acouch with her mantle drawn over her face. Her at-tendants thought that she had fallen asleep, but onendeavouring to awake her on the approach of thekhan, they found she had taken poison and was alreadydead. Nor was this all. Other ladies of Baz Baha-durs harem were in Adhams possession, and whenAkbar himself rode to Malwa in hot haste and bitter AKBARS PEESONALITY 9 shame to stop Ms lieutenants atrocities, Maham Anagahad these innocent women killed, lest they should telltales to the emperor. Akbar was well quit of bothmother and son. Although the young emperor was still immature,and it was many years before he entered upon thatstage of philosophic enlightenment which has madehis name a household word for wisdom and toleration,he had already shown something of his character andself-reliance. His refusal to strike the dying Himu,. eOLS OOIHS OP AT AGRA, A. H. 981, (A. D. 1573). his firm and yet not unkind treatment of his revoltedregent, his honest indignation at Adhams iniquities,show that Akbar possessed the right spirit. Physicallyhe is described by his son Jahangir, in later life, asof middle stature, long in the arms and sturdy of figure,rather sallow in face, with black eyes and eyebrowsand an open forehead. A wart on the left side of hisnose was regarded as not only auspicious but exceed-ingly beautiful. His voice was ringing, and, in spiteof scant culture, his conversation had a charm of itsown. His manners and habits, adds his son, werequite different from those of other people, and hiscountenance was full of godlike dignity. His modeof life was regular and abstemious. His time was care- 10 AKBAR THE GREAT fully filled, and he slept little; Ms sleep looked morelike waking. He ate but one meal a day, and thatin moderation, never approaching satiety. Gangeswater, cooled with sal
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