تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.102.7

13.102.7

From there we travelled two days to the city of Dīnawar (spelled with undotted d with i, long ī, n and w with a, and r), a great city on the sea inhabited by merchants. In it is the idol known as Dīnawar, in a great temple in which there are about a thousand brahmins and jogis and about five hundred women, daughters of the Hindus, who sing and dance every night before the idol. The city and its revenues are an endowment for the idol, and everyone in the temple and whoever comes to it eat from that. The idol is of gold, the size of a man, and in the place of its eyes are two great rubies which, I was told, shine at night like two lamps.