Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.361

c10.361

The author of the work spent about 60,000 *dinars* in the transcription and binding of his writings and a considerable sum for copying and disseminating them both in Arabic and Persian in the most famous cities of the Muhammadan world.¹ Shāh Rukh possessed a literary taste, and the story shows that a very large sum being spent on the transcription and get-up of a manuscript has its early precedents.