ABSTRACT
S#m!, ‘there is no need to describe his condition or set forth any account of him, since the rays of his virtues have reached from the East to the uttermost parts of the West, while the bountiful table of his excellencies is spread from shore to shore.’ B!bur the great Mogul inscribed in his diary that ‘in exoteric and esoteric learning there was none equal to him’ and that he was ‘too exalted for there to be any need for praising him.’
