The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 2 (of 3): translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrations
Religion
The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 2 (of 3): translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrations
Iran -- Religion; Religions
[437] Nânaki, the sister of Nânac, was married to a Hindu of
the name of _Jaya-Ram_, who was employed as a grain-factor
of Dâulet Khan Lodi, a relation of the reigning emperor of
Delhi. Nânac attended at the granary of Daulet Khan, which
was in charge of Jaya-ram, at Sultan-púr――(G. M. p. 200.)
[438] Dâulet Khan Lodi, an Afghan by birth, was formerly
private secretary to Mah-Toghluck, the eighth king of Delhi
of the Tartarian dynasty, called Toghluck, which reigned
from 1321 to 1412 A. D. At that time Dâulet Khan was placed
at the head of the empire, but, at the end of one year and
three months, he was obliged to yield his power to Khizer
Khan, who founded the dynasty of Sadat, in Delhi. This
dynasty, after thirty-eight years, made room for that of the
Afghan princes of Lodi. Dâulat Khan established himself in
the Penjab. In the general disorders of the empire, this
Afghan chief, being attacked by other Afghans, connected
himself with Baber, the Tartarian invader of Hindostan, in
1534, against Ibrahim Lodi, the Afghan king of Delhi, and
after the victory of Baber, continued to rule the Penjab.
[439] Jaya-Rama was put in prison by Dâulet Khan, on the
charge of having dissipated his property, but was justified
by Nânak’s confessions――(G. M. p. 204).
[440] पवनाहारि “wind-eater.”
[441] He was one day lying on the ground with his feet in
the direction of the temple of Mecca: “How darest thou,
infidel,” called out a Muhammedan priest, “turn thy feet
towards the house of God?” “How can I turn them,” answered
Nânac, “in a direction where the house of God is not?”――(G.
M. p. 274.)
[442] The first expedition which Baber undertook towards
India was, according to Ferichta, in 1505; from Cabul, which
he had conquered the year before, he pushed to, and along,
the Indus. He attempted, later, three times to invade India,
namely, in the years 1519, 1521, and 1522; but, being
engaged in war, on one side with the Usbeck Tartars, and on
the other with the Afghans, he did not completely succeed,
till his fourth attempt in 1525, and in 1526 having
overthrown Ibrahim Lody, in a great battle near Panniput, he
destroyed the Afghan dynasty, three kings of which had
reigned 74 years in Delhi. It was probably about this time
that Nânac happened to be introduced to Baber, before whom
he maintained his doctrine with great firmness and
eloquence. The Tartarian conqueror, pleased with the Sikh
reformer, ordered an ample maintenance to be bestowed on
him, who refused it, saying, that he trusted in him who
provided for all men――(G. M. p. 206).
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