[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Arabic](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar) › [Encyclopaedias](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua) › [مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt) › 2.26 # مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.26 English (machine translation) 2.26 - **Language:** English ### [2.26](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.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 - [Previous: 2.25](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.25) - [Next: 2.27](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.27) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2) ## Translations (1) - [Masáliku-l Absár (extracts)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-elliot.1.2) — Henry Miers Elliot & John Dowson 1871, English ## Linked texts (1) - [مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar.2.26) — Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʿUmarī, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.26](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.26) · Pramāṇa