Setting the record wrong: a Sanskrit vision of Mughal conquests.
In 1589, Padmasāgara wrote the first Sanskrit account of the Mughal rise to power within a short poem titled Jagadgurukāvya (Poem on the Teacher of the World). The work primarily eulogizes the life of a Jain religious leader named Hīravijaya, but Padmasāgara devotes one-third of the text to detailin...
| Publicado en: | South Asian History & Culture Vol. 3; no. 3; pp. 373 - 397 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2012
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