مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.133

2.133

As for prices, the middle rate is: wheat, each mann for one and a half hashtkānī dirhams; barley, each mann for one dirham of the same; rice, each mann for one and three-quarters of a dirham of the same, except certain known kinds of rice that are dearer than that; chickpeas, two manns for one hashtkānī dirham; beef and goat's meat are one price, six sīrs selling for a sulṭānī dirham, which is a quarter of a hashtkānī dirham; mutton, four sīrs for a sulṭānī dirham; geese, two hashtkānī dirhams a bird; chickens, four birds for one hashtkānī dirham; sugar,