Miraji’s talent was multidimensional. Initiating the free verse in Urdu and reinterpreting the poetics of modern Urdu poetry, he also enriched literature in Urdu through his translations into Urdu from western as well as eastern sources. Besides modern symbolic French poetry, he translated, through English, from Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Persian, Bengali, Braj and Sanskrit. This article evaluates and interprets Miraji’s contribution in the field of translation in the context of some new theories of translation.