Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.46

c10.46

In Mas’ūd we find a worthy successor of Maḥmūd, maintaining the traditions of his father, erecting magnificent public buildings including *schools and colleges*, making provision for their maintenance by rich and adequate endowments, keeping up the attractiveness of Ghaznī for learned men, paying particular attention to diffusion of learning, and placing its benefits within the easy reach of the general public by establishing educational institutions in the several cities of his large dominions. Mīrkhund, the author of the *Rauẓatul-Ṣafā*, informs us that he was very fond of the company of the learned, whom he obliged in manifold ways; for which, many an author dedicated to him his book. “During his reign,” on the evidence of the same authority, “so many