[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) › 2.55 # مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.55 English (machine translation) 2.55 - **Language:** English ### [2.55](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.55) men of refined taste. His treasury provides for all of these, and his gifts pour upon them. Whenever he learns that one of his entertainers has sung for someone else, he has him killed. I asked him what stipends these people receive, and he said: "I know nothing of their stipends except those of the boon companions: some of them have two villages, some one village, and each of them receives from forty thousand tankas to thirty thousand to twenty thousand tankas, according to their rank, besides robes of honour, garments and gifts." - [Previous: 2.54](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.54) - [Next: 2.56](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.56) - [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.1.9) — 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.2.55) — Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʿUmarī, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.55](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.55) · Pramāṇa