Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s5.12

c12.s5.12

This king was "righteous and religious," but at the same time enjoyed much the pleasures of the world. It was his practice, we are told, to sleep every night with some thousand gold *mohars* under his pillow, which in the day he gave away to deserving people.¹ In his harem there were seventy women who knew the *Qur'ān* by heart and had to recite it while the Sulṭān was putting on his clothes, and continue it until he finished dressing.²