تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.16.3

13.16.3

the winter robe and the summer robe. When the robes arrive, the amīr and the troops go out to meet them, and when they reach the one bringing them they dismount from their mounts, and each one takes his robe, carries it on his shoulder and makes obeisance towards the Sultan. The Sultan wrote to Niẓām al-Dīn: "When the Afghans come out and dismount from their mounts to take the robes, seize them at that moment."