Not only in Europe but also in India, kings and emperors used astrology as a ‘scientific proof’ for their claims to power. As it still was regarded as a science, it could provide useful justification for a king’s great destiny, even though horoscopes are so complex that almost every fact can be ‘found’ in them by a clever combination of their data. Though doubts about astrology existed, the Mughal emperors used astrology extensively. Two of them, Akbar (1556-1605) and his grandson Shāh Jahān (1628-1658), included horoscopes in the introductions of their official chronicles. Both wanted to prove that they were the renovator of Islam in the second Islamic millennium. Akbar had this done in defiance of religion, Shāh Jahān in compliance, but both with a definitive effort to twist the information from the heavens in a way that suited them. Both used horoscopes to explain the tenets of their reign as a requirement of the age. In the case of Shāh Jahān, we even find personal sentiments and changes over time, comparing an earlier and a slightly later horoscope.

不仅在欧洲，而且在印度，国王和皇帝们都将占星术作为其对权力主张的“科学证明”。尽管它仍然被视为一门科学，但它可以为国王的伟大命运提供有用的证明，尽管星座运势是如此复杂，几乎每个事实都可以通过数据的巧妙组合而被“发现”。尽管存在对占星术的怀疑，但莫卧儿皇帝广泛使用了占星术。他们中的两个人是阿克巴（1556-1605）和他的孙子沙贾汗（1628-1658），在他们的官方编年史介绍中都包括了星座运势。双方都想证明自己在第二个伊斯兰千年中是伊斯兰教的翻新者。阿克巴（Akbar）这样做是在违背宗教，即沙贾汗（ShahJahān）的情况下进行的，但是他们都做出了明确的努力，以一种适合他们的方式扭曲了来自天堂的信息。两者都使用星座来解释其统治时代的宗旨。以沙贾汗为例，我们比较了较早的星座和较晚的星座，甚至发现了随着时间变化的个人情感和变化。