تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.23.4

13.23.4

On the morning of the third day after the girl's burial I went out at dawn according to the custom, having prepared what I could of all those things, and found that the vizier had ordered all this to be arranged and had ordered an enclosure-screen (sarācha) to be pitched over the grave. The chamberlain Shams al-Dīn al-Fūshanjī, who had met us in Sind, came, together with the qāḍī Niẓām al-Dīn al-Karwānī and a number of the leading people of the city. When I arrived, the people mentioned had already taken their seats, with the chamberlain before them, and they were reciting the Qurʾān. I sat with my companions near the grave. When they had finished the recitation, the Qurʾān-readers recited in beautiful voices; then the qāḍī stood and read an elegy on the deceased girl and a eulogy of the Sultan, and at the mention of his name all the people rose to their feet and made obeisance, then sat down, and the qāḍī offered a fine prayer.