Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c15.s2.21

c15.s2.21

The above three classes do not show the place that men of letters occupied in his estimation, but the subdivisions that he introduced leave no doubt on the point. He distributed arrows of gold with different proportions of alloy to indicate the ranks of their possessors. The three classes were divided into twelve sub-classes of *Arrows*. The twelfth arrow, which was made of the purest gold, was put in the quiver of the king himself, giving him the highest rank. The eleventh arrow belonged to His Majesty’s relations and all the “Sulṭans” in the government employ. The tenth to the *learned* and religious, the ninth to the great nobles, the eighth to the courtiers and some of the king’s personal attendants, the seventh to the attendants in general, the sixth to the harems and well-behaved female