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The '''Maktab Khana''' (meaning "House of Translation") was a bureau of records and translation established by the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] [[Emperor Akbar]] in [[Fatehpur Sikri]] around 1574. Emperor Akbar commissioned his most talented scribes and secretaries to translate the [[Hindu texts|major texts of India]] from [[Sanskrit]] into [[Persian language|Persian]] and to [[Mughal_painting#Akbar_(r._1556–1605)|illustrate the manuscripts]] in the royal workshops. Of these texts included the ''[[Mahabharata]]'' into the ''[[Razmnāma]]'' ([[Persian language|Persian]]: رزم نامہ, lit. ''Book of War''), the ''[[Ramayana]]'', and the ''[[Rajatarangini]]''. Various Arabic encyclopedias and histories were also translated, as well as the entirety of the ''[[Baburnama]]'', the memoirs of Akbar's grandfather and founder of the [[Mughal dynasty|Mughal]] dynasty, [[Babur]].<ref name="jhu">{{cite journal|title=Welcome to ProjectMUSE|journal=Manoa|volume=22|issue=1|pages=125–131|publisher=muse.jhu.edu|doi=10.1353/man.0.0090|date=2010-05-28|last1=Rice|first1=Yael|s2cid=145323296}}</ref> With this bureau, Akbar aspired to "form a basis for a [[perennial philosophy|united search for truth]]" and "enable the people to understand the true spirit of their religion."<ref>{{cite book |last=Shikuh |first=Dara |author-link= |date=1998 |title=The Mingling of the Two Oceans |url=https://www.themathesontrust.org/papers/hinduism/darashikoh-majma.pdf |location=Calcutta |publisher=The Asiatic Society |isbn=}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Razmnama]]
* [[Din-i Ilahi]]
* [[Mughal painting]]
* [[Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb|Ganga–Jamuni Tehzeeb]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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