Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s1.8

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with which he could speak the Turkish language;¹ but his successor had a better literary equipment, 1375-78 A.D. and made himself famous by his literary 1378-97 A.D. encouragement. This prince named Maḥmūd Shāh Bahmanī was himself a poet and wrote some elegant verses. He was also proficient in Persian and Arabic, which he spoke fluently. He was a patron of learning, and many poets of Arabia and Persia came to his Court and partook of his liberality. Mīr Faiẓullah Anjū, it is related, presented the King with an ode, for which he received a thousand pieces of gold, and, in appreciation of his poetic power, was loaded with wealth and distinction before his retirement to his native country.² The Sulṭān founded a *madrasah* in the Deccan in 1378 A.D., for the education of orphans. They were provided with board and lodging at Government expense, and learned professors were engaged for their tuition in the college.³