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# Krishna

The Mughal emperor Akbar commissioned translations into Persian, the court language, of the great Hindu epics in the 1580s and 1590s. The royal copies were illustrated in the royal atelier.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1585–1594 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-2-1970](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-2-1970) · Pramāṇa
