Akbar's achievement with refrence to literature and architecture
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Akbar himself was a patron of art and culture. He was fond of literature, and created a library of over 24,000 volumes written in San skirt, Urdu, Persian, Greek, Latin, Arabic and Kashmir, staffed by many scholars, translators, artists, calligraphers, scribes, bookbinders and readers.
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In architecture the first great Mughal monument was the mausoleum to Humayun, erected during the reign of Akbar (1556?1605). The tomb, which was built in the 1560s, was designed by a Persian architect Mirak Mirza Ghiyas. Set in a garden at Delhi, it has an intricate ground plan with central octagonal chambers, joined by an archway with an elegant facade and surmounted by cupolas, kiosks, and pinnacles. At the same time Akbar was building his fortress-palace in his capital, Agra. Native red sandstone was inlaid with white marble, and all the surfaces were ornately carved on the outside and sumptuously painted inside.
Akbar went on to build the entire city of Fatehpur Sikri (City of Victory) in which extensive use was made of the low arches and bulbous domes that characterize the Mughal style. Built in 1571 the choice of the site of Sikri reflected Akbar's gratitude to a Muslim saint at Sikri for the birth of his son. Courtiers soon followed suit and built homes surrounding the palace and mosque. The new city became the capital of the empire, but in 1585 it was abandoned.