Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 24.13.5

24.13.5

and as to-day was full " moon, and a lucky day, they hoped he would pay some regard "also to their circumstances." Shytab-ray answered, that they ought to make their request to whoever had come in pilgrimage to this place, or to offer his prayer at this altar. As for me, added he, I have no business with either your persons or temple. This said, he got in his paleky, and pursued his journey, without giving them any thing at all, although he was far from wanting sentiments of generosity. For it was often observed, that when Gentoo mendicants applied to him, he would not give them even a farthing; whereas when any Mussulman asked him alms, in the name of His Majesty, the Commander of the Faithful, or of his children, or of his descendants, straight he would give them one rupee. It was reported by people of worth and credit, who were always near his person, that in his many journeys to Calcutta and to Bengal, where the sight is everywhere assaulted by idol temples, some of his friends, who were zealous in their worship, proposed to him to visit those places; but he constantly excused himself, although he would give them one hundred and two hundred rupees at a time to visit them themselves, desiring them to do it also in his behalf, and to fulfil the usual rites in his name. On his finishing a magnificent palace for his residence, his Gentoo friends proposed that he should consecrate it, by giving the Brahmans a repast in it.