Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.30

c10.30

When Firdausī heard this, he consented to supply the complementary verse, and the readiness with which he did so, astonished the poetic trio and made him one of them. He achieved his immediate object, and was introduced to the Sulṭān whose discerning eye did not fail to appreciate the merits of the poet. Having afterwards been appointed to compose the *Shāh-Nāmah*, he wrote a thousand