affection for them[1] (26 February, 1628). Aurangzib's daily allowance was now fixed at Rs. 500.
Thus, at the age of ten he came to a settled life; and arrangements were evidently now made for his regular education. Sadullah Khan, who rose to be the best reputed of Shah Jahan's wazirs, is said[2] to have been one of his teachers. Another teacher was Mir Muhammad Hashim of Gilan, who after a study of twelve years at Mecca and Medina came to India, learnt medicine under Hakim Ali Gilani, and kept a famous school at Ahmadabad, here he was afterwards made Civil Judge (Sadr). As Aurangzib's tutor he remained in the Prince's service till the end of Shah Jahan's reign.[3] Bernier[4] speaks of Mulla Salih as his old teacher, but the Persian histories do not bear this statement out. Of one Mulla Salih Badakhshani[5] we read that he was a scholar of Balkh and had his first audience of Shah Jahan on 4th January, 1647, when Aurangzib was already 29 years of age,—too old to go to school.
