تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.24.1

13.24.1

During my stay the Sultan ordered that villages be assigned to me yielding an income of five thousand dinars a year. The vizier and the people of the dīwān assigned them to me, and I went out to them. Among them was a village called Badalī — with a over the b, a over the undotted d, and i under the l — a village called Basahī — with a over the b and the undotted s, and i under the h — and half a village called Balara — with a over the b, the l and the r. These villages are at a distance of sixteen kurūh, that is, miles, in a ṣadī known as the Ṣadī of Hindbat. The ṣadī among them is a group of a hundred villages, and the districts around the city are divided into ṣadīs; each ṣadī has a jawṭarī, who is a headman from among the infidels of that country, and a mutaṣarrif, who is the one who collects its revenues.