مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.26

2.26

It is related in that work that Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī obtained in Sind forty bahārs of gold, each bahār being three hundred (manuscript p. 14) and thirty-three manns. He said: and from the lands of Ghazna and Qandahār is its last border. I asked Shaykh Mubārak: what is the land of India and its environs like? He told me that it has flowing rivers, nearly a thousand rivers large and small, some equalling the Nile in size, some less than it, some less than that, and some like other rivers; on the banks of the rivers are villages and cities. It has dense trees and wide meadows. It is a temperate country, all its seasons spring; breezes blow there and a gentle breeze wafts, and rains fall continuously for four months, mostly