Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c3.33

c3.33

In the chapter on female education (p. 202), a circumstance, which is worth mentioning in a book dealing with the promotion of learning, as showing Salīma’s love of reading, is that Badā’ūnī apparently fell into disgrace because he, or somebody else, had lost a book which she had been studying (Lowe’s *Badā’ūnī*, pp. 186 and 389). The book was either the original *Thirty-two Thrones*, or it was Badā’ūnī’s own translation of it, to which he gave the name of the *Khirad-afzā*. It is the tales about a demon to which