{"id":24335,"date":"2014-01-01T14:36:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T20:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=24335"},"modified":"2016-05-07T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T23:22:18","slug":"why-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=24335","title":{"rendered":"Why Write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 New (Seed Catalog) Moon<\/p>\n<p>Chronicles and manuscripts were given due consideration during Mughal reign in India. Here is an excerpt from Ain-i- Akbari, book by Abu&#8217;l Fazl, courteir of Mughal King Akbar*, on importance of writing:<\/p>\n<p>The written word may embody the wisdom of bygone ages and may become a means to intellectual progress<br \/>\nThe spoken word goes to the heart of those who are present to hear it .<br \/>\nThe written word gives wisdom to those who are near and far<br \/>\nIf it was not for the written word, the spoken word would soon die, and no keepsake would be left us from those who are passed away.<br \/>\nSuperficial observers see in the letter a dark figure, but the deep-sighted see in it a lamp of wisdom(chirag e shinsai)<br \/>\nThe written word looks black, not withstanding the thousand rays within it, or it is a light with a mole on it that wards off the evil eye.<\/p>\n<p><b style=\"color: #444444; font-size: medium;\">*Akbar<\/b><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0(<\/span><small>IPA:\u00a0<\/small><a style=\"font-size: medium;\" title=\"Help:IPA for Hindi and Urdu\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA_for_Hindi_and_Urdu\">[\u0259kb\u0259r]<\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">; 14 October 1542 \u2013 27 October 1605), known as\u00a0<\/span><b style=\"color: #444444; font-size: medium;\">Akbar the Great<\/b><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, was<\/span><a style=\"font-size: medium;\" title=\"Mughal Emperor\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mughal_Emperor\">Mughal Emperor<\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0from 1556 until his death. He was the third and greatest ruler of the\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: medium;\" title=\"Mughal Dynasty\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mughal_Dynasty\">Mughal Dynasty<\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0in India. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Akbar\">\u00a0Wiki<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 New (Seed Catalog) Moon Chronicles and manuscripts were given due consideration during Mughal reign in India. Here is an excerpt from Ain-i- &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=24335\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Write<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38704,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24335\/revisions\/38704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}