مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.73

2.73

وأما ركوبه في قصوره، فقال لي الشيخ محمد الخجندي، وكان ممن دخل دهلى، واستخدم في الجند بها، أنه رآه قد خرج من قصر إلى آخر وهو راكب وعلى رأسه الجتر [3] والسلاح داريه [4] ، ورآه محمولا بأيديهم السلاح ، وحوله قريب اثني عشر ألف مملوك، جميعهم مشاة؛ ليس فيهم راكب إلا حامل الجتر والسلاح داريه والجمداريه [5] حملة القماش.

As for his riding within his palaces, Shaykh Muḥammad al-Khujandī, who was among those who had entered Delhi and had served in the army there, told me that he saw him go out from one palace to another riding, with the parasol (jatr) over his head and the armour-bearers (silāḥdāriyya); and he saw him carried, with the weapons in their hands, and around him nearly twelve thousand mamlūks, all of them on foot; none among them was mounted except the bearer of the parasol, the armour-bearers and the jamdāriyya, the bearers of the garments.