مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.17

2.17

al-Shiblī al-ʿAwaḍī, from the province of ʿAwaḍ in India — he is one of the eminent jurists who attend the presence of the Sultan at Delhi — told me that the principal provinces in the kingdom of this Sultan are twenty-three, namely: the province of Delhi, the province of Dawākīr, the province of Multān, the province of Kahrān, the province of Sāmānā, the province of Sīwistān, the province of Wajā, the province of Hāsī, the province of Sarastī, the province of al-Maʿbar, the province of Tilang, the province of Gujarāt, the province of Badawān, the province of ʿAwaḍ, the province of Qannawj, the province of Lakhnawtī, the province of Bihār, the province of Karah, the province of Mālwa, the province of Nahāwar, the province of Kalānūr, the province of Jājnagar, the province of Tilanj, and the province of Dhūr Samund. These provinces comprise one thousand two hundred cities, all of them cities with buildings (manuscript 12), large or small, for all of them have districts and flourishing, populous villages. I do not know the number of their villages; I only know that the province of Qannawj has one hundred and twenty lakhs, each lakh being a hundred thousand villages, which makes twelve million villages; and the province of