تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.29.3

13.29.3

وعادتهم إذا أمر السلطان باحسان لحد يحط منه العشر، فمن أمر له مثلا بمائة ألف أعطى تسعين ألفا أو بعشرة آلاف أعطى تسعة آلاف!

A few days after this he made me a present of twelve thousand dinars. In a short time, however, I found myself involved in great debts, amounting to about fifty-five thousand dinars, according to the computation of India, which with them amounts to five thousand five hundred tankas; but which, according to the computation of the west, will amount to thirteen thousand dinars. The reason of this debt was, the great expenses incurred in waiting on the Emperor, during his journies to repress the revolt of the Ain El Mulk (p. 147). About this time, I composed a panegyric in praise of the Emperor, which I wrote in Arabic, and read to him. He translated it for himself, and was wonderfully pleased with it : for the Indians are fond of Arabic poetry, and are very desirous of (being memorialized in) it. I then informed him of the debt I had incurred ; which he ordered to be discharged from his own treasury, and said : Take care, in future, not to exceed the extent of your income. May God reward him.