Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s10.25

c12.s10.25

³ The inscription is as follows :—" The Prophet (God’s blessings on him) has said, ‘Search after knowledge and if it were in China.’ This excellent Madrasah was ordered to be built by the great and generous King, the Sayyid of the Sayyids, the source of auspiciousness. . . . ’Alā’uddunyā Wauddīn Abul Muzaffar Ḥusain Shāh the King, the Ḥusainī—may God perpetuate his kingdom, for the teaching of the sciences of religion and instruction in those orders which alone are true . . . On the 1st Ramazān, 907 A.H. (10th March, 1502 A.D.)."—Ravenshaw’s *Gour*, p. 80.