[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) › 2.5 # مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.5 English (machine translation) 2.5 - **Language:** English ### [2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.5) Great kingship, great justice, abundant prosperity, good government, lasting plenty, and security without fear are in the lands of India and China. The people of India are the most learned of men in the kinds of wisdom, medicine, geometry and wondrous crafts that cannot be attained \[by others\]. In their mountains and islands grow the aloeswood tree and camphor and all kinds of aromatics, such as clove, nutmeg \[3\], spikenard \[4\], Chinese cinnamon \[5\], cinnamon and cassia bark \[6\], - [Previous: 2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.4) - [Next: 2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.6) - [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.1.1) — 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.2.5) — Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʿUmarī, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.5) · Pramāṇa