مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.38

2.38

[…] and ten thousand eunuch servants, a thousand treasurers (khazandār) [5] and a thousand bearers (bashmaqdār) [6], and he has two hundred thousand at his stirrup [7] who wear arms (manuscript p. 18), walk at the Sultan's stirrup and fight on foot before him. None of the khāns, maliks, amīrs or iṣbahsālārs employs troops to whom he grants fiefs on his own behalf, as is done in Egypt and Syria; rather, each of them bears the cost only of himself and his complement of troops, their employment being