Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c18.s2.37

c18.s2.37

(i) *Sirr-ul-Asrār* (Secret of Secrets). It is sometimes called *Sirr-ul-Akbar*, "The Great Secret." It is a Persian translation of the *Upanishads*. During his stay in Kashmīr, as we learn from the preface to his work, the Prince became a disciple of a great Ṣūfī, Mullā Shāh. He read a number of standard works on Ṣūfīism, but found that pantheism was nowhere more satisfactorily taught than in the *Vedas*, and especially in the *Upanishads*. So he summoned a few Paṇḍits from Benares, which was now under his administration, and with their help went on with the work. It was finished in 1657 A.D.²