The Mughal <i>Book of War</i>: A Persian Translation of the Sanskrit <i>Mahabharata</i>

Truschke, Audrey

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“…The very first example given for addition and subtraction (verse 13) is rendered in bare essentials, 21 but what is particularly interesting is that the solution of the problem is explained in great detail, both in proper order (krama), i.e., adding the unities first, tens next and so on, and in the reverse order (utkrama), i.e., adding the hundreds first, tens next and unities last, as is suggested in the rule itself. This is how the Persian rendering reads:…”

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On the Persian Translation of Bhāskara’s Līlāvatī by Abu’l Faiẓ Faiẓī at the Court of Akbar

Sarma¹,

Zamani²

2019

Indian Journal of History of Science

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At the court of Akbar, several Sanskrit texts were rendered into Persian; these included the epics Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa, collections of fables and legends like the Pañcatantra, the Siṃhāsana-dvātriṃśikā and the Kathāsaritsāgara, and the historical work Rājataraṅgiṇī. Besides these, a Sanskrit mathematical text, the Līlāvatī of Bhāskarācārya was also translated into Persian by Akbar's Poet Laureate Faiẓī. While the Persian translations of the Mahābhārata and others have been critically examined in modern times, the Persian version of the Līlāvatī did not receive any scholarly attention, except in two minor cases. In 1816, John Taylor, in the preface to his translation of the Līlāvatī from the Sanskrit, opined that Faiẓī's Persian version omits certain sections of the Līlāvatī. In 1952, H. J. J. Winter and Arshad Mirza discussed a small fragment of the Persian version and translated 10 verses from it into English. Therefore, in this paper, an attempt is made for the first time to compare the Persian version with the Sanskrit original and to critically analyse the structure and style of the Persian version.

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On the Persian Translation of Bhāskara’s Līlāvatī by Abu’l Faiẓ Faiẓī at the Court of Akbar

Sarma¹,

Zamani²

2019

Indian Journal of History of Science

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“…In a gesture seen as politically liberal as well as astute, in 1574 Akbar entrusted a bureau [ maktab khana ] to translate Sanskrit and Arabic texts into Persian in order to promote a linguistic identity transcending ethnic or sectarian affiliations (Alam, 1998). Translations and retellings of religious works from Indian religions led to the development of unique Indo-Persian literary styles and aesthetics (Truschke, 2011). Physicians from Persia – particularly Gīlān, Tabrīz, Isfahan and Shirāz – migrated to India during the Mughal Empire and established physician lineages through the nineteenth century (Liebeskind, 1995).…”

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‘On the Diseases of the Head’ in theScale of Medicineby Muhammad Akbar Arzānī [d. 1722]

Aggarwal

2013

Hist Psychiatry

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This Classic Text examines the Mīzān-e Tibb (Scale of Medicine), an influential medical text by Muhammad Akbar Arzānī which circulated widely throughout South Asia. The success of Arzānī's text rests in its simple prose and the translation of Graeco-Arabic medical knowledge into Persian, the language of educated discourse throughout South Asia. His chapter 'Dar Amrā-e Ras' (On the Diseases of the Head) presents the classification and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders within South Asian, Islamic medicine. The excerpt below is taken from a critically edited text published in 2001 in Iran.

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“…247 Columbia University Press, 2011), pp. 396-428 for some seventeenth-and eighteenthcentury works that include these histories; also Truschke (2011).…”

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Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India

Orsini¹,

Schofield

2015

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AcknowledgementsThis volume brings together the papers presented at the third and final conference of the AHRC-funded project "North Indian Literary Culture and History from a Multilingual Perspective: 1450-1650", which Francesca ran at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) between 2006-2009 and in which Katherine was intimately involved from start to finish. The conference was initially entitled "Tellings, Not Texts", but over the course of the three days it became clear that texts were very much involved in many of the performance forms and traditions we were discussing, hence the change of title. (The first conference volume, After Timur Left, came out in 2014 from Oxford University Press, New Delhi, co-edited by Francesca and Samira Sheikh.) We would first of all like to thank the AHRC for its generous support. The conference, which took place on 8-10 June 2009, benefited from a British Academy conference support grant, for which we are also grateful, as we are to the European Research Council which supported Katherine's contributions in the latter stages. We would like here to heartily thank all the contributors for their patience and good humour as we asked for more and more changes. We thank Alessandra Tosi for her enthusiasm and welcome, and Dr David Lunn for careful copy-editing. Our dear friend Aditya Behl helped plan the conference and was supposed to come, but was in the end too ill to travel. He died, tragically young, two months later. We would like to dedicate the volume to him, for he remains in our thoughts and in our love. FO and KBSLondon and Cambridge, July 2015 Note on TransliterationA volume of this kind inevitably has a large number of transliterated words in several languages. To make the text readable without sacrificing its scholarly appeal, we have chosen to use diacritical marks for book titles and direct quotations, and to keep them to a minimum elsewhere; in some instances, notably where metrical considerations are important, they are used more extensively. For Devanagari, the transliteration used follows R.S. McGregor, The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993), with the exception that nasalised vowels are transliterated with a ṃ instead of ṁ. For Persian words, we have slightly adapted existing systems as below. In spite of our efforts, we have not achieved complete consistency. V, Ū (O only if specified as majhul) ‫ﻩ‬ H ‫ﯼ‬ Y, Ī (E only if specified as majhul)short vowels: a, i, u Note on Dating SystemsThis volume necessarily makes reference to four discrete calendrical systems.Where otherwise unmarked, we use the Common/Christian Era (Anno Domini), denoted "CE". The Islamic calendar (denoted "AH": Anno Hegirae, or Hijri year), commenced in the year 622 CE. A lunar calendar, it does not correspond directly to the Gregorian Calendar, and the year 2015 CE is 1436-37 AH. The Vikram Samvat calendar, denoted "VS", is between 56-57 years ahead of the Common Era, thus 2015 CE covers 2071-72 VS. Finally, the Banggabda or Bengali Calendar, d...

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The Mughal Book of War: A Persian Translation of the Sanskrit Mahabharata

Cited by 38 publications

References 12 publications

On the Persian Translation of Bhāskara’s Līlāvatī by Abu’l Faiẓ Faiẓī at the Court of Akbar

On the Persian Translation of Bhāskara’s Līlāvatī by Abu’l Faiẓ Faiẓī at the Court of Akbar

‘On the Diseases of the Head’ in theScale of Medicineby Muhammad Akbar Arzānī [d. 1722]

Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India

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