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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.
#Samskrt and the sciences, philosophy and spiritual essence of India thus reached Europe and have thus been instrumental in shaping modern Western thought.
While study of #Samskrt among the thought providers, substantially came down in the later half of the 20th century, an undeniable fact is the strong base that Samskrt studies have provided to modern western thought.
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