A Wikipedia article on the Razmnama, the Persian prose translation of the Mahabharata commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar. The article records four known illustrated Mughal manuscripts, the fourth made around 1616 to 1617, of which only two or more miniatures are currently identified, matching the date and patronage of this Metropolitan Museum of Art folio.
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Reliability Tier3
A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm this folio's ca. 1616 to 1617 date and Khan-i Khanan patronage as the fourth known illustrated Razmnama manuscript; independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own open-access API record for the accessioned folio. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razmnama
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Akbar directly: "commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar."
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This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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