The Razmnāma (Book of War) (رزم نامہ) is a Persian translation of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Akbar. In 1574, Akbar started a Maktab Khana or "House of Translation" in his new capital at Fatehpur Sikri.

Razmnāma (The Book of War), was one of the several literary gems patronized by Akbar in the 1580s. The Razmnāma was a Persian translation of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata. The etymology of the Persian word Razmnāma implied Tale or Book of War and is read as “Razm” implying “war” and “nama” implying “book”, “history” or “epic”.

Commissioned in 1582 by the Emperor Akbar, the Persian Razmnāmah is a prose translation of all 18 books of the Sanskrit Mahābhārata in addition to the Harivaṃśa appendix. It is not a literal translation though the content is relatively unchanged.

Titled the Razmnama (Book of War), the copiously illustrated imperial manuscript—completed between 1584 and 1586—is housed in the City Palace Museum in Jaipur (AG 1690), India, where it has remained, in recent decades, off-limits to historians and art historians alike. 3 The second-oldest known illustrated copy of the Razmnama, completed ...

The Razmnama, British Library Or.12076 is an incomplete illustrated Mughal manuscript of the Razmnama, which is a translation of the Hindu epic Mahabharata written by Naqib Khan, and copied in AH 1007 (1598/99). It contains sections 14–18, the concluding part of the work, with some detached parts.

2020年10月27日 · The Razmnama (Book of War), the first-ever Persian translation of the Mahabharata was commissioned by Mughal emperor Akbar in 1582. His court historian Abdul Qadir Badauni records that it took nearly four years to …

The 1598-1599 Razmnama By the time the Mughal Emperor Akbar ascended the throne in 1556, at the age of thirteen, the vast Turco-Mongol empire dominated virtually all of the northern part of the Indian subcontinent and would continue to expand during his reign. The empire was an Islamic state, but the Muslim elite were a minority.