Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s10.8

c12.s10.8

Moreover, we learn from the *Riyāẓu-s-Salāṭīn* that this Sulṭān was himself a poet, and once composed a verse which no one in his Court could make into a couplet. It was then sent to the famous poet Ḥāfiẓ, at Shīrāz, who, at the very sight of it, supplied the complementary verse.¹ Sulṭān Ghiyāṣuddin’s tutor of theology was Ḥamīduddīn of Nagore. The only fellow-student with whom he studied was the saint Quṭbul ’Ālam.² It is doubtful whether a Muslim ruler of Bengal or the Hindu Rājā Kansa Nārāyaṇa appointed Kīrttivāsa to translate the *Rāmāyaṇa* into Bengali; even if the latter story be true, it is undoubted that Muslim precedents influenced the action of the Rājā.³