Ain-i-Akbari

[2] The Ain-i-Akbari is the third volume of the Akbarnama containing information on Akbar's reign in the form of administrative reports, similar to a gazetteer.

The various ains include the one on the imperial mint, its workmen and their process of refining and extracting gold and silver, the dirham and the dinar etc.

The volume contains a detailed description of items such as fruits, vegetables, perfumes, carpets, etc., and also of art and painting.

Ain 35 deals with the use and maintenance of artillery, the upkeep and branding of royal horses, camels, mules and elephants, and also describes the details of the food given to animals.

[5] Volume 2: Sipah-Abadi (meaning military establishment)Nehil jain The second book describes the treatment of the servants of the throne, the military and civil services, and the attendants at the court, who with their literary genius or musical skill received a great deal of encouragement from the emperor and similarly commended the high value of their work.

In 1855, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan finished his scholarly, well-researched and illustrated edition of Abul Fazl's Ai'n-e Akbari, that itself was an extraordinarily difficult book.

Ghalib obliged but wrote a short Persian poem castigating the Ai'n-e Akbari and by implication, the imperial, sumptuous, literate and learned Mughal culture of which it was a product.

Although he did edit another two historical texts over the next few years, neither of them bore the scope of the Ai'n: a vast and triumphant document on the governance of Akbar.

Some pray his majesty to remove religious doubt; other again seek his advice for settling a worldly matter; other want medicines for their cure.

They may be practiced for a week after which boy should learn some prose and poetry by heart, and then commit to memory some verses to the praise of God, or moral sentences, each written separately.