Twilight of the Sultanate c16.s3.20

c16.s3.20

Miān Bhuā, the Prime Minister of Sikandar Lodī, got together many Indian and foreign scholars to write books on every science.⁸⁴ He appointed physicians of India and Khurāsān to prepare a treatise on Medicine. They consulted works of "Charak, Sushrut, Jānu Karan, Bhoj ...., Chintāman, Chakrāvat, Kīrat and many others,"⁸⁵ and completed in A.D. 1512 a work called the *Tibb-i-Sikandarī* also known as the *Madanush-Shifāi Sikandarī*. The chief author of the work is mentioned as Miān Bhuā, son of Khawās Khan and Minister of Sikandar.⁸⁶ In view of the fact that the works of so many scholars of medicine were consulted in the preparation of the treatise, the contention of 'Abdulla that it was a translation of a Sanskrit work entitled *Ayur Mahāvaidak*,⁸⁷ does not seem to be correct, more so because the title *Ayur Mahāvaidak* is itself open to doubt. Obviously the *Madunush-Shifāi Sikandarī* was the result of years of patient research based on the works of many ancient masters of Indian Medicine "which were popular in those days". Both Rizqulla and 'Abdulla aver that "there is no work of greater authority on medicine in India" than the *Madunush-Shifāi-Sikandarī*.⁸⁸ Similarly many works of Persian were adapted into Indian languages. *Katha Kautuk* was written by Srīvara on the theme of Yūsuf and Zuleikhā by the Persian poet Jāmī.⁸⁹