Twilight of the Sultanate c14.s6.8

c14.s6.8

Sikandar Lodī revered learning and always kept the company of accomplished and learned men.¹²⁹ It is said that the Sultan bestowed lands and gifts upon the learned and the religious to an extent that had never been known in former reigns. Sikandar Shāh himself was a scholar of Persian literature and a poet of no mean merit. His poetical pseudonym was Gulrukhī, and he recited poetry beautifully.¹³⁰