تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.22.4

13.22.4

It is their custom that the meat they give is equal in weight to the flour. What we have described was the hospitality of the Sultan's mother; after that the Sultan's hospitality reached us, which we shall describe. On the next day we rode to the Sultan's palace and greeted the vizier, who gave me two purses, each of a thousand dinars in dirhams, and said to me, "This is sarshustī," meaning "for washing your head." He gave me a robe of honour of fine goat's wool, and he had all my companions, servants and slaves listed, and they were divided into four classes: to each of the first class he gave two hundred dinars, to each of the second class one hundred and fifty dinars, to each of the third class one hundred dinars, and to each of the fourth class seventy-five dinars. They were about forty, and the total given them was four thousand dinars and more.