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1615 to 1659Mughal Empire
The scholar prince who built Pari Mahal.
Dara Shikoh, eldest son of Shah Jahan, was drawn to Sufism and to the meeting points of Islamic and Hindu thought. He oversaw a Persian translation of the Upanishads and built Pari Mahal for his Kashmiri Sufi teacher. He lost the war of succession to his brother Aurangzeb and was executed in 1659.
Facts
- His book Majma-ul-Bahrain, the meeting of the two oceans, compares Sufi and Hindu mystical ideas.
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