The Razmnama is a Persian prose translation of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar, who established a Maktab Khana, or House of Translation, at his capital Fatehpur Sikri in 1574. Hindu scholars explained the Sanskrit text, the theologian Naqib Khan produced a first Persian draft, and the poet Faizi refined it into elegant prose. Akbar and later Mughal patrons commissioned lavishly illustrated manuscript copies of the translation, produced by teams of Mughal court painters, and surviving folios from these manuscripts depict the epic's battles, courtly scenes and mythological episodes in the characteristic Mughal manuscript-painting idiom of opaque watercolour, ink and gold on paper.
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a Persian translation of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar
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He assigned a group to translate the Sanskrit books Rajatarangini, Ramayana, and Mahabharata into the Persian language, the literary language of the Mughal court.
- Has Member: Duryodhana and Salya, Folio from a Razmnama (Victoria and Albert Museum, CIRC.243-1922), own entity-description: "A folio from an illustrated Razmnama manuscript"
- Has Member: Bhima Defeats Duryodhana, Folio from a Razmnama (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 55.121.32), own entity-description: "A folio from an illustrated Razmnama manuscript"
- Has Member: Arjuna Battles Raja Tamradhvaja, Folio from a Razmnama (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 55.121.30), own entity-description: "A folio from an illustrated Razmnama manuscript"
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