Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s1.13

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handsome reward if he came thither and also a safe conduct back, Ḥāfiẓ distributed away the presents sent by Maḥmūd Shāh Bahmanī and embarked on a royal vessel that had arrived at Ormuz from the Deccan. But no sooner did it weigh anchor than a gale arose and the ship had to return to the port. The poet suffered much owing to the storm and abandoned the voyage, but wrote a few stanzas which he sent to Faizullah. When these were read out to the King, he was much pleased, and as a reward for Ḥāfiẓ gave a thousand pieces of gold to Muḥammad Qāsim Mashhadī, a learned man of Gulburgah, to purchase for Ḥāfiẓ those products of Ind that would be most acceptable to the celebrated bard.¹