In which the Author gives an account of the Festival which the Mogol Emperors are accustomed to hold every year on the day of their brith 1

[364/I] On the night preceding the following day, that of the festival commemorating that on such a day the Emperor Corrombo [364/2] came into the world, ² before the lesser and unstable luminary had emerged to illuminate the shades of night with her dim beams, artificial thunder from the Imperial Palace began to fulminate [365/I] with its awe-inspiring, 201deafening roar and announce the approaching feast. That year His Majesty was celebrating it in his own Palace with many festal ingenuities, dances, spectacles, and masquerades, which lasted most of the day. These over, the Emperor left his Imperial throne, and, accompanied by a great concourse of Princes and Lords, proceeded to his Mother's Palace ³ to see her and receive her felicitations.