Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c15.s2.25

c15.s2.25

Ferishta records that the Sulṭān built seven halls of audience, in which he received distinct classes of persons. The seven halls were respectively named after the seven planets. In the Palace of the Moon he gave audience to travellers, ambassadors, etc. The Palace of 'Utārid or Mercury was for civil officers, and so on. *The learned men were received in the Saturn and Jupiter halls.* He gave public audience according to the planet of the day, and the furniture and paintings, as also the dresses of the attendants, bore symbols emblematic of the planet. In each of these palaces he transacted business one day in the week by rotation.²