History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c38.s2.9

v3.c38.s2.9

Imams, muazzins, khatibs and attendants were appointed in them with regular salaries, and students were granted daily allowances according to their progress in knowledge, that they might engage in the study of theology with composure of mind." This was done in and around old Delhi, with special reference to the many edifices raised by the pious zeal of the orthodox Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq and Bahlol Lodi. We read that in the ninth year of Aurangzib's reign it cost the State one lakh of Rupees every year to maintain the 600 mosques at Delhi. (*Akhbarat*, 9-22.) Many of them were small or situated in deserted out-of-the-way places and, therefore, could not have afforded religious accommodation to any people in return for the public money spent on them.