Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c17.62

c17.62

⁵ "The literary circle which followed the Imperial Court appears to have been peculiarly active during its sojourn at Lahore. It was here that the voluminous history of Muhammadanism from the earliest period up to the thousandth year of the Hijri era compiled by the order of the Emperor was finished and revised ; and it was here that the translation of the *Mahābhārata* and the *Rājatarangiṇī* into Persian was undertaken," p. 10, *A Brief Account of the History and Antiquities of Lahore*, 1873 (author not mentioned)—[in the Calcutta Imperial Library].