تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.36

12.36.1

When famine took hold of the lands of Hind and Sind and prices rose so high that a maund of wheat reached six dinars, the Sultan ordered that all the people of Dihlī be given six months' provisions from the storehouse, at the rate of a pound and a half by the pounds of the Maghrib for every person per day, young or old, free or slave. The jurists and qāḍīs went out writing up registers of the people of the quarters, and they brought the people forward, and each one was given six months' provision to live on.