Akbar tries to injure himself, Man Singh stops him = Angry Akbar | The Fight of Akbar and Man Singh

Friends,

This post is a continuation of the Part-1 post of the "God Track" of Jodha Akbar. In this track, the makers are showing that Akbar has immersed himself in the river of pride as he has won a lot of Hindustan and now even tried comparison with God. (as per serial, dramatized version of historical events)

In that regard, i made a update which can be read on this link.
Link: Jodha Akbar Historical Update | Akbar Trying to be God ? + Future Tracks

Before i start this post, just see this picture from Akbarnama.

Here, a sword can be seen at some distance. Akbar has thrown Man Singh to the ground, and is quite angry. Akbar is literally "sitting" over Man Singh. All the courtiers are in shock, and don't know what to do. This is a scene from a drinking party where AKbar tries to injure himself with a sword in order to prove his valor at par with Rajputs and acts in a mad manner to almost kill himself by placing his dagger on his chest and begins to pierce it, but is saved by Man Singh.

Now, the origin of this update lies in the following incident:

I had made a tweet on February 16, 2015. In the episode of Jodha Akbar aired that day, it was shown to us that -> Jodha, through the medium of a dream watches that Jalal acts in a mad manner to injure himself in chest using a sword. That day, while changing the channels on TV i came across this scene, and immediately took to Twitter and made a tweet that, this event happened in REAL HISTORY also. The tweet was made because i was surprised to see at least something NEAR to history.

Here are those screenshots.
Start reading from the bottom one in an upward manner..

I also promised to make an update, if this scene happens in reality in the show.
Now, in the episode aired on February 20, 2015, showed us this scene in REALITY.


So, as promised, here is the historical update regarding the same. 
You can read what actually happened in reality.

I am giving 2 different sources. First one is from Akbarnama. 
In that it has been noted that this incident happened in reality.
The incident is again somewhere from 1570's.

Read the Following scan. It notes that -> 

Akbar acted in a mad manner to prove that he can be as brave as the Rajputs. There was a drinking party where select people were present. While drinking, the topic of discussion shifted to the most brave warriors/heroes of Hindustan. The name which popped up was that of Rajputs. It was mentioned that Rajputs in orders to prove their bravery would not care for their lives and could even put a sword/spear in their chest from the front which would come out after piercing the chest from the back.! It was a fatal sport, but Akbar was hell bent at proving that he could repeat the same feat in order to show his bravery, hence he decided to do the same act as done by Rajputs.! Everyone was shocked and No one dared to stop him, but Raja Man Singh. Man Singh gave a tight blow to Akbar and the sword fell down. Akbar became so much displeased that he himself got hold of Man Singh and threw him to ground and a minor scuffle followed. 

Man Singh was not doing any thing wrong, but trying to protect Akbar from the "evil praises"of his flatterers, who were provoking him. 

Here is the scan from Akbarnama ->

Here is the text from Akbarnama, as given in above scans. Please note those words which i am coloring in this text in purple color, I am also adding some meanings in brackets. -->

" One of the occurrences was that an injury happened to His Majesty's hand; but it was cured. The brief account of this instructive catastrophe is that the sitter on the throne of the Caliphate is always shrouding himself(Akbar) under a special screen, while the stewards of fate are ever removing this screen and displaying the spiritual and physical glories of him who has been magnified by God. 

One night there was a select drinking-party. Discourse fell upon the bravery of the heroes of Hindustan, and it was stated that they paid no regard to their lives. For instance, some Rajputs would hold a double-headed spear, and two men, who were equally-matched(of equal strength), would run from opposite sides against the points, so the latter would transfix them and come out at their backs. 

That Divine wrestler of the world(means Akbar), for the sake of screening his glory(to prove his bravery), or for testing men, or from the melancholy engendered by his being in the outer world, fastened the hilt of his special sword to a wall, and placing the point near his sacred breast declared that if Rajputs were wont to sell their valour in their way, he would rush against this sword.(Akbar was trying to emulate what Rajputs did.) 

Awe fell upon those who were standing at the feast, and none had the power to utter a word, nor even to offer any opposition. Just then Raja Man Singh ran with the foot of fidelity and gave such a blow with his hand that the sword fell down and made a cut between His Majesty's thumb and his index-finger. Those present removed the sword and His Majesty angrily flung Man Singh on the ground and squeezed him. 

Mozaffar foolishly tried to free him from the grasp of that tiger of God and by twisting his wounded finger released Man Singh. This increased the wound, but by the Divine protection it soon healed. "

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Above was the scan and text from Akbarnama. The language is a bit tough to understand.
Hence, here is the simplified version of the above event. This will make the incident completely clear

Conclusion:

So this was the Part-2 update of the God Track. This incident involved Man Singh and Akbar's "fight" where Man Singh gave a blow to Akbar, thereby hurting the latter in the process, which was only to save his life. But as Akbar was drunk, he charged back on Man Singh. 

The bond of Man Singh and Akbar is still remembered in the bards in Rajputana, he fought even with his relative Rana Pratap as he had sworn his loyalty to Akbar. What counted for him was loyalty and his word of mouth, not his relations.! Man Singh was one of the most loyal officers of Akbar, and was referred to as Farzand-i-Akbar, meaning, "Son of Akbar". Akbar used to call him his son.!

I mentioned one portrait from Akbarnama above, where Akbar and Man Singh engaged in "fight". They had their own bitter sweet moments.

As told earlier, this "God track" has been formulated by joining dots from history with dramatization. Timelines are of 1570's , a sort of back-leap as already been taken.!

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