Book Title: Buddhivilas
Author(s): Padmadhar Pathak
Publisher: Rajasthan Prachyavidya Pratishthan Jodhpur

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________________ 12 बुद्धि-विलास who was relieved from the Mogor mission at Agra, to help Jai Singh in his work. This was in 1730. The father went to Europe, to bring books and astronomical instruments. His friend Pedro-de-silva Leitao, who had come from Goa settled in Jaipur where he died about 1792. A.D. Silva's grandson was a physician of repute known as Hakim Mārtin*. He became an influential courtier, but his family did not survive long. For an exhaustive study of the subject, we have nothing to equal G. R. Kaye's “A Guide to the Observatories at Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain, Benares," published from Calcutta in the year 1920. तह रहैं कारषाने छतीस ॥१५१॥ यह हुतो कारषाने त नौस, पारसी नाम ता मद्धि दोस । नृप काढि हिंदवी नाम कीन, गृह संग्या यह ठांनी नवीन ॥१५२॥ The Mughals had a smooth system of running the administration through various departments each designated a "Karkhana", Borrowed from Persia, in the words of Huartt, the Karkhana system had come to stay in Hindustan with the rule of the Mughals, although even before, during the pre-Mughal period of Muslim governments in India the system was in knowledge. Basically, these departments dealt with the management of the royal paraphernalia. The Karkhana system soon became model for practically the whole of Hindustan, leaving the Rajput States no exception to it, particularly Jaipur of the Kachawāhās who had very close relations with the affairs at Delhi and Agra. The author has mentioned thirty-six Karkhana's which were essentially the same as mentioned by Abul Fazal in his Āin. But, as the work shows, it was Jai Singh who brought a change by giving Hindi names to the hitherto existing Persian names for these departments. The author then proceeds to describe the new-names and abruptly fRead. Clement Huart's "Ancient Persia and Iranian Civilization." fRead. Afif's "Tārikh-i-Firujshāhī". *The descendants of Hakim Martin are still living in Jaipur. They enjoyed a big Jagir of village 'Banar', a Rly. Stn. in the west of Jaipur known as Ninlar-Bainar' on the Jaipur-Jhunjhunu line. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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