AYEEN AKBERY; OR, THE INSTITUTES OF THE EMPEROR AKBER. TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL PERSIAN By FRANCIS GLADWIN. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: Printed by J SWAN and Co. Gracechurch-street, FOR J. SEWELL; VERNOR AND HOOD; J. CUTHELL; J. WALKER; 1800. THE HE Tranflator embraces this opportunity of returning thanks to his friend Colonel Polier, for having enabled him to give the particulars of the Tukseem Jumma, or Rent Roll, in a ftate of greater perfection than he otherwife could poffibly have done. This gentleman was at the pains to collate, with feveral ancient manufcripts, the copy from which this part of the tranflation is made. Although it be poffible that fome few of the names, in the districts least known to us, may not be completely correct, yet, upon the whole, we may venture to affert, that nothing of the kind, even fo perfect as this, has ever appeared in any European language; and we therefore hope it will prove an acceptable addition to hiftorical and geographical learning. Since the publication of the first volume of this work, the honourable Board have favoured the tranflator with the following recommendation to the Court of Directors: Extract of a general letter from the Governor-General and Council, to the Honourable the Court of Directors, dated the 23d October, 1783, and dispatched per Nerbudda. "A propofal having been made to us by Mr. Francis Gladwin, for the publication of a complete tranflation from the Perfian language, of a book well known by the name of the AYEEN AKBERY, and this being a work which may prove of the utmoft utility to the Company, as it contains the original inftitutes of the Sultan Akber, the founder of the empire, we refolved, as well on this account, as for the promotion of the knowledge of Indian literature, to fubfcribe, in the Company's name, for (iv) 150 fets of three quarto volumes each, at 40 rupees |