The Nāṣirī Generations 158.9

158.9

That Kasr is an edifice the like of which is not to be found in any country or in any capital — a Kasr in height and area, and with buttresses, balconies, and turrets, and of such configuration as no geometrician hath made manifest. Over that kasr are placed five pinnacles inlaid with gold, each of them three ells and a little over in height, and in breadth two ells; and also two gold humae, each of about the size of a large camel. Those golden pinnacles and those humae, the Sultan-i-Ghazi, Mu'izz-ud-Din, Muhammad, after the capture of Ajmir, had sent in token of service, and as valuable presents, to [his brother] Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Muhammad-i-Sam, with many other articles of rarity, such as a ring of gold, with a chain of gold attached, the dimension of which was five ells by five ells, and two great kos [kettle-drums] of gold, which were carried on carriages. Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din directed that the ring and chain, and those kharbuzah [kettle-drums], should be suspended before the portico of the Jami' Masjid at Firuz-koh; and, when the Jami’ Masjid was destroyed by a flood, the ring, chain, and those kharbuzah [kettle-drums], the Sultan sent to the city of Hirat, so that after the Jami' Masjid of that city had been destroyed by fire, they rebuilt it by means of those gifts.