تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.4.1

12.4.1

Most often he sits after the afternoon prayer, and sometimes at the beginning of the day. He sits on a dais spread with white, on which is a mattress; a large cushion is placed behind his back, a bolster to his right and another like it to his left. He sits as a person sits for the tashahhud in prayer, which is how all the people of Hind sit. When he sits, the vizier stands before him, the clerks stand behind the vizier, and behind them the chamberlains. The chief of the chamberlains is Fīrūz Malik, the sultan's cousin and deputy, and he is the chamberlain nearest to the sultan; after him comes the Khāṣṣ Ḥājib, then the deputy Khāṣṣ Ḥājib, the Wakīl al-Dār and his deputy, the Sharaf al-Ḥujjāb, the Sayyid al-Ḥujjāb, and a group under their command. After the chamberlains come the naqībs, who number about a hundred.