Mughal emperor Akbar set up a translation bureau in India in the sixteenth century,The first translation of the Ramayana came from a Maulvi named Badayuni . Akbar also arranged for the Mahabharata, the Yogavasistha, the Harivamsa and the Bhagavata to be translated.
Shah Jahan’s eldest son Prince Dara Shikoh commissioned the translation of fifty Upanishads into Persian….
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