Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s1.4

c12.s1.4

¹ Maḥmūd, the youngest prince, being questioned by his father one day, replied that it was the *Bustān* that he was then reading with his tutor (*Ferishta* vol. ii, p. 296). Silsilahi-Āṣafiyah (vol. iii, p. 131), quoting Mullā Dā’ūd Bīdārī’s *Tuḥfatul-Salāṭīn* gives an interesting account of a son of Dā’ūd Shāh, who used to teach students three days in the week, viz. on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. He was very fond of these books: *Zāhidī*, *Sharḥi-Tazkirah* and *Taḥrīri-Uqlidas* (Euclid) in mathematics; *Sharḥi-Maqāṣid* in theology; and *Mutawwal* in rhetoric; and made them the course of study of his pupils.