Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c3.4

c3.4

falsehood, for he is seldom thought of without the *amari aliquid* arising of his ribald treatment of Joan of Arc. Such was the impression produced by Sulṭān Maḥmūd’s love of plunder that the poet Sa’dī represents a Persian king as seeing Maḥmūd in a dream, a hundred years after the Sulṭān was dead. “The body had decayed and crumbled into dust, all save the eyeballs which rolled in their sockets, looking hither and thither. None of the soothsayers could give the interpretation; but a certain poor man put in his word and said, ‘He is searching because his kingdoms have passed away to another.’”