تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.104.1

13.104.1

When we came near his quarters, he sent some of the chamberlains to meet us. He was sitting in a wooden tower. Their custom throughout Hind is that no one goes in to the sultan without boots. I had no boots, so one of the infidels gave me a pair. There was a group of Muslims there, and I marvelled that the infidel showed more generosity than they did! I went in to the sultan, and he bade me sit, and summoned the qāḍī al-Ḥājj Ṣadr al-Zamān Bahāʾ al-Dīn. He lodged me next to him in three tents—which they call khiyām—and sent carpets and their food, which is rice and meat.