Twilight of the Sultanate c16.s3.18

c16.s3.18

Indeed from the days of Fīrōz Tughlaq onwards many works were translated into Persian from Sanskrit; Sanskrit possessed a rich Literature. Fīrōz Shāh Tughlaq got a work on Hindu Philosophy translated into Persian and named it *Dalāyal-i-Fīroz Shāhī*. In the fifteenth century the work of translating Sanskrit works into Persian went on apace. King Zainul 'Ābidīn of Kashmir (1420-70) possessed good knowledge of Persian, Hindi and Tibetan. Under his patronage the *Mahābhārata* and *Rājtaranganī* were translated into Persian. Jonarāja (d. 1459) carried on Kalhan's *Rājtaranganī* in the same style, his pupil Srīvara covered the period from 1459 to 1486, while Priya Bhatta and his pupil Shuka carried on the tale to some years after the annexation of Kashmir by Akbar.⁸³