Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.33

c10.33

repented of his neglect of the incomparable poet and ordered his men to take 60,000 *dīnārs* at once to Ṭūs and ask the poet’s pardon. In the *Bahāristān* it is written that when these presents came in at one gate of Ṭūs, the coffin of Firdausī was carried out at the other. An only daughter was his heiress. She refused to accept the presents when offered to her, saying—