To further Muslim-Hindu understanding Akbar ordered the Mahabharata and other classic Hindu texts to be translated into Persian, the court language. This manuscript may have been commissioned by Akbar’s commander-in-chief, ‘Abd ur-Rahim Khankhanan.
<p>Artist/maker: Jamal, son of Muwafig (active c. 1598)
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Credit line: Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
1598<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1598-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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