تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 11.12.1

11.12.1

Quṭb al-Dīn deposed his brother Shihāb al-Dīn, cut off his finger and sent him to Kālyūr, where he was imprisoned with his brothers, and the kingdom was firmly established for Quṭb al-Dīn. After that he went out from the capital Dihlī to Dawlat Ābād, which is forty days' journey from it. The road between them is lined with trees, willows and others, so that one walking along it seems to be in a garden. In every mile of it there are three dāwas, that is, the post, whose arrangement we have described, and in every dāwa there is everything the traveller needs, so that it is as if he were walking through a market for the forty days' journey. In the same way the road continues to the lands of Tiling and Maʿbar, six months' journey, and at every halting-place there is a palace