The History of Fīrūz Shāh (Baranī) 9.10

9.10

The fifth project * * * was the raising of an immense army for the campaign against Khurásán. * * * In that year three hundred and seventy thousand horse were enrolled in the muster-master's office. For a whole year these were supported and paid; but as they were not employed in war and conquest and enabled to maintain themselves on plunder, when the next year came round, there was not sufficient in the treasury or in the feudal estates (iktá') to support them. The army broke up; each man took his own course and engaged in his own occupations. But lacs and krors had been expended by the treasury.