The Nāṣirī Generations 34.3

34.3

He also ordered the chiefs, nobles and ministers to give something, and accordingly each one gave him some present, amounting in the whole to about three thousand pieces more, and at the time of his departure, five thousand pieces were added to what he had formerly received; so that the Imám-zada obtained eighteen thousand tankas through the favour of that Ghiyasu-d din Khilji, king of Lakhnauti. When the writer of this book reached the territory of Lakhnauti in A.H. 641 (1243 a.d.), he witnessed the charity of this king with his own eyes.