تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 10.12.9

10.12.9

The Sultan of Hind, whose capital we were making for, was absent from it in the region of the city of Qanūj, which is ten days from the capital Dihlī. In the capital were his mother, called al-Makhdūma Jahān — jahān is the word for 'the world' — and also his vizier Khwāja Jahān, named Aḥmad b. Iyās, a Rūmī by origin. The vizier sent his men to meet us, and appointed to receive each of us someone of his own rank. Among those he appointed to receive me were Shaykh al-Basṭāmī, al-Sharīf al-Māzandarānī, who is the chamberlain of foreigners, and the jurist ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Multānī, known as Qunnara, with u after the q and a doubled n with a. He wrote to the Sultan with news of us and sent the letter by al-dāwa, which is the foot post, as we have described. It reached the Sultan, and the reply came to him during those three days that we stayed at Masʿūd Ābād.