Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.37

c10.37

Magnanimous towards literary men as he was, his literary bias dominated on one occasion his martial instincts and made his zeal for war yield to dictates of peace; in 1023 A.D., he invested the fort of Gwalior, and after a while Nanda Roy, its chief, willing to conclude peace, sent out 300 elephants without riders, for the Turks to seize and take them.² Ferishta has a somewhat different version of this event and says that Nanda had intoxicated the elephants with drugs in order to put the bravery