Crossword-Solution: KABI 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Esarhaddon agrees with Shalmaneser in ascribing the founding of the temple to Ushpia, but he states that only 126 years (instead of 159 years) separated Erishu (whom he spells Irishu), the son of Ilu-shumma, from Shamshi-Adad, the son of Bêl-kabi; and he adds that 434 years (instead of 580 years) elapsed between Shamshi-Adad’s restoration of the temple and the time when it was burned down.

Akbar's favourite minister and companion, Raja Birbal (who fell in battle on the north-western frontier in 1583), was a musician and a poet as well as a politician, and held the title, conferred by the Emperor, of _Kabi-Ray_, or poet laureate; his verses and witty sayings are still extremely popular in northern India, though no complete work by him is known to exist.

The courts of Chhatarsal, raja of Panna in Bundelkhand, who was killed in battle with Aurangzeb in 1658, and of several rajas of Bandho (now called Riwan or Rewah) in Baghelkhand, were famous for their patronage of poets; and the Mogul court itself kept up the office of _Kabi-Ray_ or poet laureate even during the fanatical reign of Aurangzeb.

This Chand Kabi was something of a mystic, and he taught me many things that are not in the curriculums of schools for boys under ten.

Not only that, but he could project mental images to great distances, so that the recipient of his thought waves could see what Chand Kabi was seeing, or whatever else Chand Kabi wished him to see.