تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.7.4

12.7.4

This malik is of great standing with him, of high rank and much wealth. His dīwān secretary, Thiqat al-Mulk ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī al-Miṣrī, known as Ibn al-Sharābishī, told me that his expenditure and that of his slaves and their salaries came to thirty-six lakhs a year.