The Institutes of Akbar 73.14

73.14

The Líláwatí, which is one of the most excellent works written by Indian Mathematicians on Arithmetic, lost its Hindí veil, and received a Persian garb from the hand of my elder brother, Shaikh ’Abdul Faiz i Faizí. — At the command of His Majesty, Mukammal Khán of Gujrát translated into Persian the Tájik, a well known work on Astronomy. The Memoirs of Bábar, the Conqueror of the world, which may be called a Code of practical wisdom, have been translated from Turkish into Persian by Mírzá ‘Abdurrahim Khān, the present Khān Khānān (Commander-in-Chief). The History of Kashmir, which extends over the last four thousand years, has been translated from Kashmirian into Persian by Maulānā Shāh Muhammad of Shāhābād. The Mu’jam ul Buldān, an excellent work on towns and countries, has been translated from Arabic into Persian by several Arabic scholars, as Mullā Ahmad of T’hat’hah, Qāsim Bēg, Shaikh Munawwar, and others. The Haribans, a book containing the life of Krishna, was translated into Persian by Maulānā Sherī (Vide the poetical extracts of the second book).