تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 11.9.3

11.9.3

جلال الدين وكان حليما فاضلا، وحلمه أداه إلى القتل، كما سنذكره، واستقام له الملك سنين ، وبني القصر المعروف باسمه ، وهو الذي أعطاه السلطان محمد لصهره الأمير غدا بن مهنى لما زوجه بأخته، وسيذكر ذلك، فكان للسلطان جلال الدين ولد اسمه ركن الدين، وابن أخ اسمه علاء الدين زوجه بابنته، وولاه مدينة كرا ومانكبور ونواحيها ، وهي من أخصب بلاد الهند، كثيرة القمح والأرز والسكر، وتصنع بها الثياب الرفيعة، ومنها تجلب إلى دهلي وبينهما مسيرة ثمانية عشر يوما.

Jalāl al-Dīn. He was forbearing and virtuous, and his forbearance led to his being killed, as we shall relate. The kingdom remained firmly his for some years, and he built the palace known by his name, which is the one Sultan Muḥammad gave to his brother-in-law the amīr Ghadā b. Muhannā when he married him to his sister, as will be mentioned. Sultan Jalāl al-Dīn had a son named Rukn al-Dīn and a nephew named ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn, whom he married to his daughter and appointed governor of the city of Karā and Mānakbūr and their districts. This is among the most fertile lands of Hind, abounding in wheat, rice and sugar, and fine cloths are made there and brought from there to Dihlī; the distance between them is eighteen days' journey.