تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.30.12

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dinars. He returned to him and informed him, and he ordered him to go back to them and tell them: "Khwand ʿĀlam says to you: the money is with me and I will see you are paid in full from it, so do not press him for it!" He ordered ʿImād al-Dīn al-Simnānī and Khudhāwandzāda Ghiyāth al-Dīn to sit in the Hazār Usṭūn, and the creditors to bring their contracts so that they might examine and verify them. The two did so; the creditors brought their contracts, and the two went in to the Sultan and informed him that the contracts were established. He laughed and said jokingly: "I know he is a qāḍī; he has fixed his business in them!" Then he ordered Khudhāwandzāda to give me that sum from the treasury, but he coveted a bribe for it and refused to write the khaṭṭ-i khurd. I sent him two hundred tankas, but he returned them and would not take them, and one of his servants told me on his behalf that he wanted five hundred tankas. I refused this, and informed ʿAmīd al-Mulk, son of ʿImād al-Dīn al-Simnānī, of it; he informed his father, and the vizier learned of it. There was enmity between him and Khudhāwandzāda, so he informed the Sultan and told him of many of Khudhāwandzāda's doings, which turned the Sultan's mind against him. He ordered him confined in the city and said: "For what reason did so-and-so give him what he gave him?" and they suspended the matter until it should be known whether Khudhāwandzāda would give anything if I withheld it, or withhold it if I gave it?! For this reason the payment of my debt was held up.