Sikandernama: Qissa-I-Sikander of Akhbar (The Story of Alexander- The Great that was written for the Emperor Akbhar)

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Alexander, the Great stomped across the ancient world and his indelible footprint was so transformative in the short span of his life that its effect lasted for the next 1,500 years. All great generals and conquerors that appeared after him have been compared against the standards set by him. The great Mughal emperor, Akbar was in his own right a great ruler. Unlettered, but erudite he had a vast collection of books, and lurking in there, one might imagine, was a book about Sikander as he was called. This book is a work of imagination overlaid on some historical events, which attempts to create some of the magic that is conjured by the achievements of Sikander-i-Azam and the times in which he achieved so much.

There is no man in the word who does not dream. How many men see the fulfilment of their dream? How often is it that these dreams are buried in the struggle of day to day existence? Do these dreams then die unfulfilled? Are they transmitted to the children thus converting them into the vehicle of fulfilment for the ambition of the parents? Sikander too was the product of a dream..... the dreamer was his father Failafus. The dream was for his country, Maghdouniyeh to conquer and rule over the greatest empire of that time, the Empire of Parsa which was also called the Empire of the Hakhamaneshiyan or the Achaemenids. Sikander inherited this dream, nay, it was instilled in him by Failafus his father, by Rufuya, his mother and by Aristatalis, his teacher. He was taught that the men of Parsa were 'barbarians' and the men of Maghdouniyeh and Yunan were a superior race, who were created to rule over them. He was trained by his parents to be a ruler, and inherited the finest military machine of its time, the Maghdouniyehn army as the vehicle for his conquests. To this he brought his own style of leadership, diplomatic skills and an unmatched flair for conquest. He would have been a mere conqueror, then, if he had just lived this dream. The appellation 'great', would not have been applicable. Somewhere in fulfilling this dream of his father, Sikander changed.

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