4 HISTORY OF AURANGZIB. [CHAP. I. affection for them* (26 February, 1628). Aurang- zib's daily allowance was now fixed at Rs. 500. Thus, at the age of ten he came to a settled life ; and arrangements were evi- dently now made for his regular education. Sadullah Khan, who rose to be the best reputed of Shah Jahan's wazirs, is saidt to Education. 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, where 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. Bernierg speaks of Mulla Salih as his old teacher, but the Persian histories do not Of one Mulla Salih bear this statement out. Badakhshani|| 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.
- Abdul Hamid's Padishahnamah, I.A. 70, 97, 177.
+ Hamiduddin's Ahkam-i-Alamgiri, Ir. MS. 23a. But Sadullah entered Shah Jahan's service in Dec. 1640. (Pad. ii, 220). I Padishahnamah, I. B. 345- S Bernier's Travels, ed. by Constable, p. 154. | Padishahnamah, ii. 624. Digitized by Microsoft®
