Patronage of Persian translations during the Mughal period
Question
"Yogavāsistha" was translated into Persian by Nizamuddin Panipati during the reign of:
Options
Akbar
Humayun
Shahjahan
Aurangzeb
Explanation
The Yogavasistha, an influential philosophical text of Advaita Vedanta, was translated into Persian by Nizamuddin Panipati under the direct patronage of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, who aggressively sponsored the translation of Sanskrit classics (like the Mahabharata and Ramayana) to foster religious synthesis.
Answer: (a).
Question details
Year
2022
Paper
GS Paper 1
Question
Q94
Subject
History
Sub-topic
Medieval: Sultanate & Mughals
Type
Factual single
Difficulty
Hard
Nature
Static
Source hint
Mughal Translation Bureau / Akbar Court Persian Manuscripts
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