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THE PACHI8I COURT OF AKBAR AT FATHPUR- SIKBI. CHAPTER XII AKBAE'S RELIGIOUS VIEWS, AS DESCRIBED BY BADAUNI Sixteenth Century A. D. AKBAR the Great was a reformer and innovator, as has been fully shown in the preceding volume. Among the detailed accounts of his reign is a rec- ord by Abd-al-Kadir Badauni, who lived and wrote at the great emperor's court and died in 1615 A. D., ten years after his royal patron's death. The selection here chosen from Badauni 's work illustrates the well-known latitudinarianism of Akbar in religious matters and shows how little favour they met with in orthodox Mohammedan eyes like those of Badauni. ' In the year 983 A. H. (1575 A. D.), the buildings of the IMdat-KMnah, or " Hall of Worship," were com- pleted. The cause of their erection was as follows. In 277