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#DaraShikoh, was the son of Shah Jahan the Mughal king and his Queen Mumtaz Mahal, after whom the Taj Mahal has been built.
Dara Shikoh was the heir apparent to the Mughal throne, till his brother Aurangazeb, publicly disgraced and beheaded him.
Dara Shikoh, in 1657, translated 50 Upanishads from #Samskrt into Persian as Sirr-e-Akbar, “The Greatest Mysteries” which the French orientalist, Anquetil Du Perron, who visited India between 1755 & 1761, translated from Persian into French & Latin, under the title “Oupnek’hat.”
“Oup-ne-k’hat” was a foreign pronunciation of “Upa-ni-shad”.
This Oupnek’hat was praised by Schopenhauer as a work that gave him complete consolation.
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