[99] Jangis Khan died in the year of the Hejira 626 (A. D. 1228), in his sixty-sixth year. He left an empire which extended from the Indus to the Black sea; from the banks of the Wolga to the remote plains of China; and from the arid shores of the Persian gulf to the cold deserts of Siberia. Having, in his early age, been driven by his subjects from his home, he passed several years under the protection of a Christian prince, _Awenk Khan_, or _Ungh Khan_, known to Europeans under the name of _Prester John_; and was therefore supposed by some to have adopted the Christian religion: thus much is true――he and his successors protected the Christians and persecuted the Muhammedans, until _Nikudár Oglan_ professed the Muhammedan faith, in A. D. 1281, and drove the Christians out of his empire. [100] The duration of Jangis Khan’s dynasty reckoned from the year of the Hejira 599 (A. D. 1202) extended by fourteen princes to 736 (A. D. 1335), comprising 137 lunar, 133 solar, years. It does not appear that change of religion, by itself, had any influence upon the decline and fall of this dynasty. SECTION IV.――UPON THE SAYINGS OF HIS MAJESTY (AKBAR), DWELLING IN THE SEVENTH HEAVEN. First, the ordinances of conduct which the Nawab, the wise and learned Shaikh Abu ’l Fazil wrote, with the pen of accuracy, by orders of his Majesty, dwelling in heaven, in order that the governors of the countries occupied by his sovereignty, and the clerks, may pay attention to their execution. This is “God is great;” this is the patent of the Ilahí faith: and the ordinances of conduct are a work of instruction, which sprung from the fountain of benevolence, and the mine of kindness of sovereignty, and according to which the regulators of the royal offices, the managers of the Khalifa’s court among his fortunate sons, the gentle-minded princes, the Omrahs, high in dignity, all men of rank, the collectors of revenues and the Kótwals may settle their practices; and in the arrangement of important affairs in great cities and in villages, and in all places maintain their authority.