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The Nāṣirī Generations 190.1.3

Tabakat-i-Nasiri 190.1.3

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190.1.3

Inquiry was made of him respecting the means of his acquisition of wealth. He related that, after he had come into Hindustan, and determined to proceed from Dihli to Lakhanawati, when he reached that capital, Almighty God predisposed things so that he [the Imam, and Imam's son] was called upon to deliver a discourse in the audience-hall of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, ’Iwaz, the Khalj. That sovereign, of benevolent disposition, brought forth from his treasury a large chalice full of gold and silver tangahs, and bestowed upon him a present of about two thousand tangahs; and gave commands to his own Maliks and Amirs, Grandees and Ministers of State, so that each one presented, on his behalf, liberal presents. About three thousand gold and silver tangahs more were obtained. At the period of his return home [from Lakhanawati] an additional five thousand tangahs were acquired in gifts, so that the sum of ten thousand tangahs was amassed by that Imam, and Imam’s son, through the exemplary piety of that renowned monarch of benevolent disposition. When the writer of these words, in the year 641 H., reached the territory of Lakhanawati, the good works of that sovereign, in different parts of that territory, were beheld [by him].