"Yogavasistha" was translated into Persian by Nizamuddin Panipati during the reign of:

1. A

   Akbar

   Akbar. Nizamuddin Panipati’s Persian Yogavasistha sits in the Akbari translation project.

2. B

   Humayun

   Humayun. Too early for this rendering.

3. C

   Shahjahan

   Shahjahan. Later Mughal, not this translator–text pair.

4. D

   Aurangzeb

   Aurangzeb. Not the patron of this Persian Yogavasistha.

Summary. Official key is (a) Akbar. The Yogavasistha was rendered into Persian by Nizamuddin Panipati in Akbar’s reign, part of the Maktab Khana / translation effort.