Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c17.24

c17.24

fable.¹ He kept up his studies throughout his life. Every day some competent person read to him books which he used to hear from the beginning to the end. He marked with dates the places where he left off, and paid the reader according to the number of pages read. This steady progress in study made him acquainted with many works on different subjects; and Abul Faẓl says that there was "hardly a work of science, of genius or of history but was read to His Majesty; and he was not tired with hearing them repeated, but always listened with great avidity."² The following works were repeatedly read by him:—