Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.372

c10.372

[NOTE.—With regard to the knowledge of Sanskrit among the Muhammadans of this period, Mr. Elliot says that in the library of Nawāb Jalāluddaulah at Lucknow, there is a work on astrology translated from Sanskrit into Persian in Fīrūz Shah’s reign. There is also another work on the veterinary art called *Kurrutul-Mulk*, translated from the Sanskrit original styled *Sālotar*. Without any allusion to this work, another on the veterinary art entitled *Sālotarī*, the Sanskrit original of which is said to have comprised 16,000 slokas, was translated in the reign of Shāh Jahān by ’Abdullāh Khān Bahādur Fīrūz Jang. This work of Shāh Jahān’s time is more than double the size of the other (*see* Elliot v. 573, 574).