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the latter method. 'The whole length and breadth of the land,' wrote Muhammad Amín after his death. 'was firmly and righteously governed. All people of every description and station came to his court, and universal peace being established among all classes, men of every sect dwelt secure under his protection.' Such was Akbar the ruler. In the next chapter I shall endeavour to describe what he was as a man.
Akbar died the 15th October, 1605, one day after he had attained the age of sixty-three.
