Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s1.45

c12.s1.45

The college had a mosque attached to it in order that religion might go hand in hand with secular learning. At the time of Ferishta, the whole college was as entire as if just finished, but nowadays it has lost much of its beauty through mutilation by an explosion of gunpowder, which took place when Aurangzib used it as a magazine and a barrack.²