تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 7.2.7

7.2.7

Ibn Battūta], let Wajih al-Mulk, the qadi of Dawlat Abad, go in his place.” We came next to the small town of Mawrī, and thence reached Marh, a large town, inhabited chiefly by infidels under Muslim control. It takes its name from the Malawa, a tribe of Hindus, of very powerful build and good-looking; their women especially are exceedingly beautiful and famous for the charms of their company. From Marh we travelled to ‘Alābūr [Alapur], a small town inhabited like the former by infidels under Muslim control. A day’s journey from there lived an infidel sultan, named Qatam, who was sultan of Janbil and was killed after besieging Guyalyur [Gwalior]. The governor of ‘Alabur was the Abyssinian Badr, a slave of the sultan’s, a man whose bravery passed into a proverb. He was continually making raids on the infidels alone and single handed, killing and taking captive, so that his fame spread far and wide and the infidels went in fear of him. He was tall and corpulent, and used to eat a whole sheep at a meal, and I was told that after eating he would drink about a pound and a half of ghee, following the custom of the Abyssinians in their own country. He had a son nearly as brave as himself. During a raid on a village belonging to some Hindus Badr’s horse fell with him into a matamore and the villagers surrounded him and killed him.