Showing posts with label Cultural Encounters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cultural Encounters. Show all posts

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Cultural Encounters—Sanskrit At The Mughal Court

In the 1580s, Emperor Akbar ordered the translation of the Sanskrit Mahabharata into Persian. The newly minted Mughal epic, called the Razmnamah (Book of War), would prove a seminal work in imperial …


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