Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c17.9

c17.9

“With these Paṇḍits my father (Akbar) was in constant habit of familiar conversation on every subject. He associated, indeed, with the learned among the Hindus of every description; and although he might not have derived any particular advantage from the attainment, he had acquired such a knowledge of the elegance of composition both in prose and verse that a person not acquainted with the circumstances of his elevated character and station might have set him down as profoundly learned in every branch of science.”¹