India: Prince Daniyal Accompanies the Young Hindu Girl to the Funeral Pyre. From the illuminated manuscript poem Sūz va gudāz ('Burning and melting') by Muhammad Riza Naw'i Khabushani (1563–1610). c. 1657. Akbar (25 October 1542 - 27 October 1605), also known as Shahanshah Akbar-e-Azam or Akbar the Great, was the third Mughal Emperor. He was of Timurid descent; the son of Emperor Humayun, and the grandson of Emperor Babur, the ruler who founded the Mughal dynasty in India. At the end of his reign in 1605 the Mughal empire covered most of the northern and central India.

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