Takmilah i Akbar-namah 17: Almshouses and Sarais.
Takmila-i Akbar-náma, of ’Ináyatu-lla (Elliot & Dowson, extracts) 17
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At this period almshouses were directed to be established throughout the Imperial dominions; also caravanserais for travellers at every stage, where food was to be prepared and held in readiness at all times for the way-worn traveller, who is usually too fatigued to be equal to the exertion of cooking his own repast.