[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) › [Travel and sea narratives](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla) › [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt) › 10.4 # تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 10.4 English (machine translation) 10.4 - **Language:** English ### [10.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.10.4.1) Among his vessels the jurist ʿAlāʾ al-Mulk had one known as the ahwara (with a over the hamza and the hā', the wāw unvowelled, and a over the rā'); it is a kind of ṭarīda as we have in our country, except that it is broader and shorter. ### [10.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.10.4.2) Over half of it is a wooden cabin reached by steps, and on top of it is a seat prepared for the amīr to sit on; his companions sit before him and the mamlūks stand to the right and left, while the oarsmen, about forty of them, row. Accompanying this ahwara are four vessels, to its right and left: two of them carry the amīr's insignia of rank, that is, the standards, drums, trumpets, horns and ṣurnāyāt (which are shawms), and the other two carry the musicians. The drums and trumpets play by turns and the singers sing by turns, and they continue so from the beginning of the day until the time of the midday meal. ### [10.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.10.4.3) When it is time for the midday meal the vessels draw together and are joined to one another, gangplanks are laid between them, and the musicians come to the amīr's ahwara and sing until he has finished eating; then they eat, and when the meal is over they return to their vessel and set off again in their order until nightfall. At night the camp is pitched on the bank of the river, the amīr goes to his tents, the banquet is spread, and most of the troops attend the meal. When they have prayed the last evening prayer, the night-watchmen keep watch through the night in shifts; when the men of a shift have completed their turn, a crier among them calls out in a loud voice: "O Khwand Malik, so many hours of the night have passed." Then the men of the next shift keep watch, and when they have finished their crier also calls out, announcing how many hours have passed. At dawn the trumpets and drums are sounded, the dawn prayer is performed and food is brought; when the meal is over they set off. If the amīr wishes to go by river he embarks in the order we have described; if he wishes to travel by land, the drums and trumpets are sounded, his chamberlains go ahead, followed by the footmen in front of him. Ahead of the chamberlains are six horsemen, three of them with drums slung round their necks and three with shawms; when they approach a village or some rising ground they sound those drums and shawms, and then the drums and trumpets of the troops are sounded. To the right and left of the chamberlains are the singers, who sing by turns. When it is time for the midday meal they halt. ### [10.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.10.4.4) I travelled with ʿAlāʾ al-Mulk for five days, and we reached the seat of his governorship, the city of Lāharī. ### [10.4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.10.4.5) Its name is spelt with a over the hā' and i under the rā'. It is a fine city on the coast of the great sea, and there the river of Sind flows into the sea, so that two seas meet there. It has a great harbour to which come the people of Yemen, the people of Fārs and others, and for that reason its revenues are great and its wealth abundant. The amīr ʿAlāʾ al-Mulk told me that the revenue of this city is sixty lakhs a year (we have already stated the value of the lakh), and of this the amīr receives nim dah yak, meaning one twentieth. On this basis the Sultan grants territories to his officials: they take one twentieth of it for themselves. ## Linked texts (1) - [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.10.4.1) — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.10.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.10.4) · Pramāṇa