Akbar Birbal - What we should know | The Real Story | Brahm Kavi | Mahesh Das
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- This video traces the life of Birbal as a Poet, Diplomat, Administrator, Military Leader and his impact on the Religious Policy of Akbar. The immense affection and faith Akbar had in Birbal knows no parallel in Akbari History and is borne out of the times when Akbar had put his life in danger to save Birbal's. The uncontrollable lament of Akbar on Birbal's demise was a source of envy for many in the Court.
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This not-for-profit educational video is based on the information material sourced from the following suggested readings for the viewers;
1. Raja Birbal (Life and Times) by P. P. Sinha
2. Popular Jokes and Political History, Case of Akbar, Birbal and Mulla Do Piyaza by C. M. Naim
3. Cultural history of Medieval India - edited by Meenakshi Khanna
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16. Photo credits to Wikimedia Commons and above
आपने बीरबल के जीवन को उनसे जुड़े चुटकुलों से बाहर निकाल कर प्रामाणिकता से स्थापित किया। उनकी कविताओं को भी बहुत अच्छे से प्रस्तुत किया।
धन्यवाद सर। कुछ अनजाने पहलुओं को श्रोताओं के सम्मुख प्रस्तुत करने की कोशिश है।
Sir we have privilege/ flexibility to (modify /edit/add ) our Puranas based on prevailing circumstances of that time as our books are not based on religion/ belief system but emphasises on ideal way of living .
So connecting Akbar with past life philosophy is hard to digesting theory.
It gives a feeling that this story is trying to cover the wounds and bring feel good factor to our past.
We merely relate what is written and is part of the research done. Reference to reading material is given in the description of the video. We agree on the editworthyness of Puranic literature with passage of time. Having said that, we are of the view that much research still needs to be done in Indian History.
आप बिलकुल सही बात कर रही हैं आक्रांताओ की बर्बरता को ढकने की नीति.............
@@trystwithhistory8480 if somethings are written in a book that doesn't make that true. you are making a video on that means u believe that and want your followers to believe same. better make a video on something which tells people how akbar was a religious bigot and killed Hindus. Hindus are already very tolerant and have become dhimmis after being ruled by barbarians for long. Better research in something to make people come out of dhimminess. But your video is only doing opposite. Feel good that we were ruled by a barbarians , feel good in serving them. feel good if again we get same fate. Already our motherland got divided by this dhimminess and again heading towards same.
@@trystwithhistory8480 You can very well relate history written by the Indic scholars instead of that written by the leftists posing as historians.
In the course of entire history millions of humans have lived and died following hundreds of religions , The Gods of Hawai or Egypt or Ancient Babylon did not save those who died under misery though prayed for them, Not a single cylinder of oxygen became full on it's own in the Pandemic. When two Hindu kings fought in the ancient times before any "foreign" power came into India ..who died..?soldiers for no cause except of their kings..You have not been wounded, Nobody insulted you.. You have a complex,based on a fictional pride.. That somehow..these brutal kings of past who killed each other for power are related to you and they were grand just because they belonged to the same religion.. Power is and was the only Aim of these rulers...Try to speak about Injustice or criticize a local leader of ruling party..Them we will see what wounds are..
Birbal got converted to Din Ilahi so readily because Akbar got him married to a beautiful muslim woman. So out of gratitude towards Akbar, Birbal was ready to do anything.
India needs more creators like you sir. Every time your video ends, I feel a bit less ignorant and a bit more enlightened.
Akbar was inhuman and barbaric king. After attack and win over Chittorgarh fort , he had 30000 civilians of chittor city, it is a recorded history but not taught .
सर ये तो बताएँ अकबर ने ऐसा क्या किया जो वो स्वर्ग पहुंच गया।🤔
sahi kaha aapne vo to nark jaane yogya nahin tha adharmi
Sahi pakade hai
Akbar ne Mina bajar khola tha hindu aurto ka bajar
@@funtasticfanish4493 sir purano me aadha sach aadha jhunth likha ha hamare vastvik granth ved hain 🙏
@@pratibhasingh8224pata nhi Aaj ke time mein kya saccha hai kya jhoota kyunki bohot saare granth toh mughalo ne jala diyee th......
@@himanshukaushik8779 right
This so called "Tejasvi" raja Akbar led to the third jauhar of Chittore in 1567.
Those so called great Rajputs persecuted lower caste people and still do so in rajasthan
@@Playerone1287 absolutely but to say one is evil and other is gracious is foolishness. Kingship knows no kinship.
@@vinod.19 glad you understood my point you seem like a nice person, nice to meet you
अक़बर के मीना बाज़ार के बारे में क्या विचार है आपके?
तब ये लोग अपने पिछवाड़े छुपाते है
Is it true that Akbar changed the name of Prayag to illahbad/allahbad? If so, why did he do so?
To promote allah and his religion
Where was Birbal the advisor then?
@@vinayaknaik2602 why would he care about that? He was just an employee
@@CK30585 Yes, he was just another courtier who was witty. So what's great about that? Let him remain in the story books where, at least there, he scores some points over Akbar.
@@vinayaknaik2602 who knows what happened 500 years ago.. but akbar and his courtiers were not interested in Hinduism .. their propaganda was Islam .. so they were not good for bharat
What an Irony that Beerbal used all his intelligence against his own countrymen or there was no Indian King who could use Beerbals intelligence
It is still happening...
Lol..Butt Hurt spotted.
@@TheBR911 😂😂😂kuch bhi,we can say the same to the workers of East india too
True and we were thinking that Birbal is really great. Both suited each other. Such a shame
Ye sab Katha aapne kis kitaab me padi hai? 2 4 ka naam hame bhi batain.
Sources are given in the description of the video. Please see.
पिछले जन्म के राज इन्हे पूछ लो l
At one point Akbar was called as Kafir by his religious scholars after he formed new religion called din-e-ilahi. No wonder why no Muslim named their kid as Akbar' after him.
Akbaruddin owasi
Why have you stopped uploading videos for past 6 months?
Sir, kya aisa nahi ho sakta hai? Akbar ko khush karne ke liye us daur mein Bhavishya Puran mein ye sab daal diya.
बिलकुल हो सकता है , ऐसा कई पुस्तकों और ग्रंथो के साथ किया गया है।
Of course, not only this but many other manuscripts were altered by people who hate India or Hindus
बीरबल की इतनी सटीक जानकारी आज आपसे जानी । आपका बहुत बहुत आभार।
Sir Akbar must have gone to Jannat,
And this stories which you want to establish, Akbar started doing surya puja, and gave grants to temples, is hard to believe,
When people believe you so seriously, please don't use words "ye mana jata hai", every word you speak must be your fact findings from old scriptures, and not what you believe.
I don't understand why this perspective of history is not being taught to us in schools ...through this we can understand the history way better and can learn moral values too
Bcoz fitting all these things in the history classes of young students will be a big overload on them. Already history is a hated subject by many. + Jitna history padhne ko school mein tha aur hai, woh toh sabne samajhke padha hi nahi.. aur abhi zyaada chaahiye 😂
@Gulrez Rana lol I studied in the times when bjp was never in the power ... even today's syllabus is not renewed its just same
Where can I read that letter of 6 pages?
Akbar ek number saitan thaa... Akbar kabhi bhi great nhi thaa
Akbar started a new religion named “Din-I-ilahi” based on Islam, Zoroastrianism and Hinduism. Birbal was one of the first followers of the faith. Even Akbar’s own families refused to convert but Birbal did without hesitation.
Akbar kaise mahan hua
Agar akbar mahan tha to humare shiromani maharana Prataap kya hai
Ek hi mahaan ho skta h kya...?
अबुल फ़ज़ल ने ये सब लिखा है। हमें यही सब पढ़ाया गया है , अकबर महान था बताया गया है , हकीकत कुछ और थी उसे छुपाया गया है।
ये महोदय ज़्यादातर मुसलमानों को महान बताने की ज़बरदस्त कोशिश कर रहे हैं
@@aniaggarwal लगता तो ऐसे ही है।
What an eye opener....thanks for sharing the interesting anecdotes straight from the Court records KK Sir.
While growing up, we Bengalis knew these Akbar Birbal stories as the stories of Gopal bhand- bhand probably translates to comedienne and if I am not mistaken the king whom Gopal served was Samrat vikramaditya
Gopal bhar and samrat vikramaditya is a different story based in nadia nabadeep
They r not at all the same
and in Mithila...we know these stories as of Gonu jha
You mean Chandragupta
gopal bhar server raja krishnachandra roy of nabadwip who was a vassal king under nawab alivardi khan
Akber slaughtered 40000 civilians at chittor and this guy telling us that he is a great king.Distorian
Sahi Kaha Jai Shri ParshuRam
आप जैसे महा पुरुषो सै देश की भावी पीढी को संस्कार मिलेगा बहुत बहुत साधुवाद
Amazing informative video of you . Birbal death was one of the reason for the Akbar death later on . As because Akbar did not withstand the loss .
NewNews👉बहुत रोचक और हैरतअंगेज जानकारी के लिए धन्यवाद । वैसे वीरवर जी को सिख धर्म गुरु ने मरवा दिया उसने उनको एक लेप दिया था जिसको लगाने के बाद किसी भी हथियार से कट नही लग सकता । ऐसी भी कथा है
इक मुसलमान के लिए कितना प्यार भरा है ? इतना अगर हिंदू हो कर भी हिंदुओ के लिए होता तो कुछ और बात होती । जय हिन्द, वन्दे मातरम् ।
What
Yes bro
@No One .. Illiterate bigot ..Educate yourself...Open your mind
Haa yar apki mammi bhi hindu hai unse bhi pya bhara hai
Bade jahil kism ke insan ho bhai school Gaye ho kabhi jao tumhe bahut jarurat he jahalat bhari he tumame
Requesting the maker of these episodes to also release a book with each episode converted into a chapter, with some of the illustrations.
That way, the hard copy will serve people who want to read more than listen or see.
+1
महाशय , ये आम आदमी पार्टी की पुस्तक का इतिहास है क्या कि, अकबर एक कवि बन गया।
कृपया गलत गलत न पढ़ाएं।
अकबर एक अशिक्षित सुल्तान था। उसको अक्षर ज्ञान नहीं था, फिर उसने कवित्त सवैय्ये कैसे लिखे?
तेनाली राम की विनोद गाथाओं को भी आपने चतुराई से मुस्लिम तुर्कों की देन बता दी।
वही मे भी kahna चाहता हु, हम आज भी इन आक्रन्तो को सही, ज्ञानी और सर्व धर्म के हीत karnewale समजते है
No one can prove that Birbal was even a real character .
राजा रामचंद्र कहा के थे आपने उनके फ़ोर्ट की इमेज भानगढ की लगा रखी है जो की अलवर राजस्थान मे स्थित हैं प्लीज बताये
बहुत सुंदर प्रस्तुति और जानकारी
पुराणों में बहुत कम ही है जो वास्तविक और सत्य हो.....मुगलों के महिमामंडन की कलाओं मे से ये भी एक है....... और आप जैसे लोगों की चर्चा तो खैर क्या ही कहे.....
सर कहा जाता है अकबर अनपढ़ थे तो उन्होंने विलाप पत्र कैसे लिखा 6 पन्ने का। plz reply late hai pr बताइयेगा जरूर
I guess you haven't seen a single ncert history book.
Cuz kings used to narrate words to the writers.
It were writers who used to write give the words it's magic
Everyone knows that Akbar Birbal Stories are taken from the stories of Tenali Ramakrishna and Raja Krishna Devarai.. Birbal is a figment of imagination
Historian like you always feel honored in glorifying Mughals to the extent of hysteria which always dilute the true Barbaric dids of Mughal's with the Hindu's of our country.
Actually the fact is that such illiterate bigot people like you are not at all interested in history or historical facts either. You have your own propaganda, and according to that you try to mould everything into it , be it history , literature, science or even films and now it has got only worse that you're trying to create an entirely different version of history just to satisfy your own personal feud . Education is a process of questioning, so question everything, read , research in order to find the answers. Obviously commenting hatred on social media is far more easy than that .
And you're too hell-bent in turning them into cartoonish villains just because they're of Muslim religion
Never imagined this was the truth
Akbar was a great King
The Pratisarg section of Bhavishya Puran has been quite contentious, with many scholars considering it a political forgery
2hy no new videos sir ? :(
totally concocted story with no proof from any primary source.
For non hindi speakers it would be great to have some English closed captions 🙂
Aajkal sir aap video nahi dal rahe hai,,, so sad
Bhavishya Purna is a recent work of dubious origin. Also his assertion " Akela Muslim Raja " is patently false. Mahmud Ghazni finds a mention in Bhavishya purana. Nicholas Sutton ( scholar at Oxford centre for Hindu studies), while debunking Zakir naik's fraud claims , emphasised that Mahamud used in Bhavishya Purna is actually Mahmud Ghazni (Not Muhammad the prophet)
Non of them is holy to be mentioned in any hindu puranas.
Sir sorry to rectify you but birbal was born in sidhi and was diwan at rewa riyasat in mp
Many thanks for watching the video with interest. And thank you for the comment.
May we request you to share the source. Our video is based on the sources mentioned in the description. You may like to check them out.
Please be factual because both the characters could have done a lot better for Hindus. However, Meena bazar and degradation of Hindus throughout the empire is hidden from Hindus in India. You are part of that legacy, following the path shown by Nehru and Romila Thapar.
Can you mention any primary source that refers to Meena Bazaars being organized by Akbar? Would like to read up on it.
अकबर द्वारा किए गए लाखों हिन्दुओं के नरसंहारों को ढकने का प्रयास यहाँ किया गया है। इतना ही महान था तो मीनाबाजार में क्या करता था। उसे महान वामपंथी इतिहासकारों ने कांग्रेस के समर्थन से बनाया है और यहाँ वही काम आगे बढ़ाया जा रहा है।
Sir can you please provide the source where it says that Akbar is the only Muslim ruler to be mentioned in Bhavishya Purana. I have searched it up repeatedly but it does not show. Aurangzeb is mentioned, as well, it seems according to the Google search. Can you please give me the source?
Hi. Thank you for being inquisitive.
The sources on which the video relies are detailed in the description. Kindly have a look.
आदरणीय सर
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
परशुराम जी का जन्म वास्तविकता में कहां हुआ था... यदि कोई प्रमाण हो.. तो कृपया हमसे भी साझा करें.. 🙏🙏🙏
Renuka ji himachal
Akbar was equally brutal and most of ur info is just suni sunai baat.... No facts at all
This relationship of Akbar and Birbal is fascinating and definitely well presented. It strikes a chord so similar to the relationship of Alexander and Hephaestion where Alexander gave up his royal duties to mourn the loss of Haephastion, who was his lover , for several days.
Maybe Akbar too had this enmeshed relationship with Birbal that was more than just friendship or professional duty. That made him so protective of Birbal to put himself in harms way. Just like the love between Alexander and Hephastion.
Learn to know, forget about recognizing, acknowledging and/or respecting other forms of love between individuals!! You guys are suffering from OCD!
@@somaganguly955 Homophobia is curable. So it will eventually and wont need this OCD to only see romantic love between a Hetero-romantic couple as the only form of valid love in the society and Homoromatic love as something negative. And these history lessons reminds us back that we didnt need any OCD for love. May it be across religion, caste, sexuality or gender.
I love your entry Sir🤗
So calm and radiant....
Stay blessed 💚
Wow a funny story. A saint who repented for swallowing a single cow hair reborn as some one who would swallow an entire cow! Height of sickularism !
Akbar is known for killing Hindus in general and Brahmins in particular... History iss full of Akbar's crimes. Still we Hindus project him as a great soul..
True.. Quite shocking to hear these from such learned ppl. 🙄
U ppl have no knowledge of history and only spread propaganda brainwashed ppl
Sickularism at its height
Story is funny and baseless indeed, but Akbar did ban cow slaughter and became a vegetarian himself in his later days, so there's that!
It would be more interesting if it were a homosexual love story.
There is no akbar birbal story,
There is only Tenali Raman story,
Which was deformed by some people with agendas as akbar-birbal story
Really??
@@UdayButola those mf had cannibalised India for almost 500 years , they have intention and enough time to twist
our literature
our itihas
our science
our manuscript etc etc etc and they did, and extra credits to communist professors and historians
just hear all stories and think again ,
I can tell more if you want
waah sir lazwab
चाचा पागल हो गए हो क्या पहले यह तो पता करो कि बीरबल कहां के थे कुछ भी स्टोरी बनाकर डाल देते हो टाइमपास के लिए
🙂
@@trystwithhistory8480 Sir I am sorry for these ppl.. I love ur knowledge on history
अकबर ने तलवार से 50 साल राज किया तो कौनसी बड़ी बात है, पप्पू ने तो केवल जीन्स पहनकर ही 70 साल राज किया।
Birbal was very genius man..He was actually a kashmiri brahmin..and akbar once visited kashmir and saw everyone very intelligent and efficient,even the kids and women in kashmir had great religious knowledge.Akbar got surprised and he said in kashmir every hindu has so much knowledge like scholars(pandits) have in rest of india..So he gave the title of Pandits to whole kashmiri brahmin community..Birbal was the kashmiri pandit whose family migrated very early to UP bcz of afghan rule in kashmir..There are many famous indians who are believed to have roots from kashmir..Even Aryabhatta was believed to be from bhat brahmin family from kashmir(but i can be wrong)..Also kalidasa was believed to be from kashmir.But unfortunately not enough proofs.
Sir, very interesting. can you please add the primary source of evidence for the contents of the videos that you prepare including this video.
The references are given in the description of the video.
Ye konsi ghatiya kahani suna kar bhrahm faila rahe hai
Mughal akramankari the ( lootere )
Jai bhaart 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Sir aap aur video banayiena hume aur janna hai apse
बहुत सुंदर ॐ सनातन धर्म का सार ह । आत्मा परमात्मा कर्म अधर्म पुनर्जन्म ओर ईश्वर ॐ जय श्रीरामम
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Tryst With History .....please don't miss inform people , and distort history , Akbar used to kill ,torture Hindus and also force conversion.
he forced hindu kings to become his subordinate and bow to him or die( only Maharana Pratap was brave enough to fight him)
hindu kings/people were forced to pay extra tax , promote conversions
Well researched and rare insights and anecdotes about the Akbar - Birbal partnership. Thanks for the information shared.
brother..that was no partnership...Birbal was converted to Dene-e-ilahi..
haha yeah great research that a guy swallowed cow's hair with milk and was born as akbar in the next life, what a load of crap
What was the meena bazar sir?
Sir the end almost bought tears to my eyes, the way you have depicted this is nothing short of Nizammudin and Khusrow. Please keep up the good work, would love to meet you someday, I have a group of friends who are archeologists and anthropologists, would love if you couldn’t spare some time. 🙏🏻
Sure. Please mail us your number at trystwithhistory@gmail.com. We will call back.
Pls mention language of video in title
English title then why only hindi ?
Great ! Thank you. Greetings !
akbar birbal ki stories ka source kya hai aur ismein se kya saare unoriginal hai ya kuch
Sir please start again
Pls don't mix mythology with history. Akbar was a tyrant and a pure breed islamic oppressor. Nothing was great about him...neither were his rule nor his personal ideology....which he displayed in various occassion be it killing of lakhs of people, where women and children self cremated in fire in Mewar, where smoke filled the sky for weeks or his taxation policies where even a poor hindu pilgrim had to pay heavy tax while grand mosques were regularly boult all across and muslims were paid for Haj by the same state. He is no saint and his crimes are always been given cover fire by people and historians who selected and cunningly placed historical facts on table...like you are doing. Stop this nonsense!
Wasn't the pilgrim tax removed by him though?
@@baansurii No, it wasn't
@@anirrbunbanerjee5718 From the Akbarnama, Volume 2, Page 295:
"It was the custom in India for rulers to take sums from the people who came to sacred spots to worship... He (Akbar) looked upon such grasping of property as blameable and issued orders forbidding the levy thereof throughout his dominions."
Kindly refrain from spreading misinformation on the internet.
@@anirrbunbanerjee5718 As mentioned in Akbarnama, Volume 2, Page 295 - It was the custom in India for rulers to take sums from the people who came to sacred spots to worship. Akbar looked upon such grasping of property as blameable and issues orders forbidding the levy thereof throughout his dominions.
Kindly refrain from spreading misinformation on the internet.
@@anirrbunbanerjee5718 Him forbidding pilgrim tax is clearly mentioned on Page 295 of the second volume of Akbarnama. Kindly refrain from spreading misinformation.
Bhavishya Puran kahan par dekha si
Te hai
Excellent research n the best heard compering skills bro🙏🙏
Thank you Anirudh bhai 🙏
बहुत सुंदर कथा वर्णन। धन्यवाद।
Wow..... What an amazing story...
Thanks a lot for sharing this interesting aspect of history! Proud and partially sad to know how the important aspect gets forgotten and only the unnecessary humour prevails! Respect to your work Shriman ji!
क्या अकवर का पुनर्जन्म हो चुका है? अब किस योनी में है वह? आप ने तो पूरा अध्यन कर रखा है। आप सर्वज्ञाता एब्ं भविश्य ज्ञाता भी लगते हैं जी। बीरबल आजकल कहाँ होंगे? यह भी बताने का कष्ट करें।
the poems uve shown, akbar wrote those in persian and not in hindi language right?
Thank you for the query. The poems shown, except the last one, were written by Birbal. His pseudonym features in each of them. Braj bhasha was as much in use in Akbar's time.
@@trystwithhistory8480 i didnt knew akbar used to compose poems in braj language too.. thanks for the knowledge 🙏
बहुत खूबी से आपने समझाया ओर ध्यान से सुनने वालों को समझ में भी खूब आया, सर जैसे कि आपने शुरवात में अकबर ओर बीरबल के पूर्व जन्म की बात कही वैसे हि कृपया इस पूर्व जन्म के विषय मे भी एक एपिसोड करे के इस धरती पर अबतक जितनी भी बड़ी बड़ी हस्तियां आइ या अभी भी जो है, इनके बारे में कुछ अध्यन कर कृपया हमें समझाये...
ये इतिहास भी ऐसे sickular लोग गढ़ लेंगे,लेफ्टिस्ट एजेंडा हमेशा यही रहा है।
@@sunap5636 aagaya bhakt
चल निकल।जो तू बताए वो सही बिना सबूत के भी।औऱ बाकी झूठे।ये बहरूपिया है हिन्दू भाइयो
Bhot dukh ki bat hai ki hamare tak real information nahi pohuchti aur agar pohuchti hai to wo incomplete , keep it up sir asehi contains late rahiye🙏🙇♀️🇮🇳
Akbar The Great is among the Greatest Monarch Ever who Lived on this planet 😎
Sir Maharan Pratap, Ranavghan, Maharaja Krishnakumar sinhaji, Shivaji Maharaj... In sabaka bhi history video banaye sir.
Your knowledge is incredible.... would really appropriate if you can dedicate a video to Bhavisha Puran
Great..Thanku so much...You're a candle in the darkness sir... Kindly make the video on Kailash Parvat..
Excellent information
Great, you brought a wonderful portion from the history otherwise everyone is telling their own version now a days.
Akbar was way ahead of his time. Its sad to see most of his successors were shit
सर आप अपना नाम सहित परिचय दें,please
What an amazing story of friendship
Bahut bahut dhanyavad sir itne mahatwapurn jankari Dene ke liye
बहुत गलत बता रहे हैं आप।।
वीरबल का जन्म घोघरा गाँव सीधी जिला मध्यप्रदेश में हुआ था ना कि कानपुर,।।
Cultural History of Medieval India edited by Meenakshi Khanna, Page 29.
Please read on Google Books here books.google.co.in/books?id=ZbKv3zyIFD8C&pg=PA24&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Please provide atleast english subtitles for viewers from South india
Akbar was nice, the best emperor. And Aurangzeb was ruthless and a lunatic.
Just one word WOW..
Akbar massacred 40K Hindus in Chittorgarh.
But of let’s not forget how benign, moderate secular he was. Right?
Excellent research .. 🙏 sir
कोई किताब जो अकबर औऱ बीरबल के बारे में बताये ?
great information sir..Its an eyeopener which tells the real story of akbar birbal relation...