Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s1.21

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He also utilized his linguistic attainments in his conversation with the foreigners who came to his Court. He had a very retentive memory, which enabled him to acquire his many literary qualifications. On Saturdays, Mondays and Thursdays, he used to hear lectures on *botany*, *geometry* and *logic*, generally during the day, but, if business intervened, at night. He was a good poet, and often composed extempore verses. He was well versed in many sciences and very fond of natural philosophy. Every fourth day he used to copy sixteen pages of the *Qur'ān* before engaging in public business. He spent most of his time in the society of divines, poets, reciters of history, readers