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 292 AKBAR'S KELIGIOUS VIEWS able to carry out his project of overturning the dogmas and principles of Islam, to set up his novel, absurd, and dangerous regulations, and to give currency to his own vicious beliefs. In 991 A. H. (1583 A: D.) the King erected two build- ings outside the city where he might feed holy men, both Mussulman and Hindu. Some of Abu-1-Fazl's AKBAR'S TOMBSTONE AT SIKANDRA. people were in charge and used to spend the king's money in procuring food. As Hindu ascetics also used to flock there in great numbers, a separate house was built for them and called Joglpura. Nightly sessions were held in private with some of these men, and they used to employ themselves in various follies and extrav- agancies, in contemplations, gestures, addresses, ab- stractions, and reveries, and in alchemy, incantation,