Prelimsverse: Mughal Period: Literature and Translations

Literature during the times of Mughal

Reign during which the book was written.BookAuthor
BaburTuzuk-i-Baburi (Turkish) (Auto-biography)Babur
HumayunHumayunnamaHumayun’s sister Gulbadan Begum 
AkbarAkbarnamaAbul Fazl
Shah JahanPadshahnamaAbdul Hamid Lahori
Jahangir Tuzk-e-Jahangiri or Jahangirnama(Auto-Biography)Jahangir 
Aurangazeb“Fatwa-i-Alamgiri”
Dara Shikoh, son of Shah Jahan, penned many writings on Sufism. One of his major works is ‘Majma-ul-Bahrain‘ or ‘The Confluence of the Two Seas‘, where he talked about the diversity of religions and the harmony of Islam and Hinduism and other religions. The translation of the Bhagavat Gita and Upanishads into the Persian language was also done by Dara.

Books translated into Persian during the times of Mughal

Baburnama Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khan
Mahabharat (Razmanama)Abdul Qadir, Badayuni,Naquib Khan, Sheikh Sultan: It was called Razmanama
RamayanaAbdul Qadir, Badayuni, Sheikh sultan, Naquib Khan
AtharvedaHazi Ibrahim Sirhindi
PanchatantraAbul Fazal
YogavasisthaNizamuddin Panipati
Rajatarangini Mulla Shah Muhammad
LilavatiFaizi
Nal-DamayantiFaizi
Bhagavat Gita Faizi and Dara Shikoh
Haribans Purana Maulana Shairie
Kalia DamanAbul Fazal

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