Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c15.s1.23

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Sultān to live at his court. Khundamīr had to leave Hirāt owing to troubles raging there, and came to Hindustan, where he was introduced to Emperor Bābar at Agra. He accompanied the Emperor to Bengal in his expedition, and upon his death was favoured by Humāyūn, in whose name he wrote the *Qānūni-Humāyūn*, quoted by Abul Fazl in the *Akbar-Nāmah*. He accompanied Humāyūn to Gujrāt, where he died (1534-35 A.D.), and his body was buried in Delhi by the side of Nizāmuddīn Auliyā and Amīr Khusrau.¹