Discover the paintings and decorative arts of the Mughal period - the most powerful and lasting of the Islamic dynasties in India.
To promote Muslim-Hindu understanding, Akbar ordered the Mahabharata epic and other classic Hindu texts to be translated into Persian, the court language. This manuscript may have been commissioned by his minister ‘Abd ur-Rahim Khankhanan.
Harle, J. C., and Andrew Topsfield, Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1987), no. 83 on p. 76, p. xiv, illus. p. 76
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