تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.19.2

13.19.2

Some students from Khurāsān told me that they entered a town called Akrūha, between Ḥānsī and Sarsatī, and found it deserted. They went to a house to spend the night and found in one of its rooms a man who had lit a fire and held a human leg in his hand, roasting it in the fire and eating from it, God preserve us! When the situation became severe, the Sultan ordered that all the people of Dihlī be given provisions for six months. The qāḍīs, secretaries and amīrs went round the lanes and quarters, registering the people and giving each person six months' provisions at the rate of one and a half Maghribī raṭls a day per person. During that time I was feeding people from the food I prepared at the mausoleum of Sultan Quṭb al-Dīn, as will be related, and the people were revived by it. May God Most High reward the intention in it.