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According to the following Statements the Sultan took upon himself the responsibility of imparting instruction to his pupils with a view to doing service to humanity and appreciating learning and scholarship:- (View the image of this page) While Vincent Smith ascribes it to something fantastical : · "He was tolerant to men of all faiths at his court and it is said that his partiality for Hindus led his Muslim subjects to give him the title of Jagat Guru ( World Preceptor)" (Oxford History of India, 1923, p.
But his verses in Dakhini+ are available from the Kitab-i-Nauras which embodies a collection of songs composed by the Sultan and intended to be sung in one of the melodies of Hindustani music.
Zuhuri in his introduction to it assigns the following reasonss for doing so: (View the image of this page) The reason for giving this title is that Indians call a mixture of nine juices Nauras; and if Persians regard it as a new fruit of the tree of excellence and perfection, it is quite appropriate.
He concludes correctly that the Kitab-i-Nauras is a collection of stray songs composed from time to time and that the songs were meant to be sung in different melodies of Indian music, and that all the pieces are indepen• dent of each other, having nothing like a continuous narration on any particular subject.
It contains 46 songs ( two of which are defective) under fourteen Ragas and Raginis with nine Dohras and begins : (View the image of this page) (II) Ms. in the Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad This MS.