تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.35.2

13.35.2

the muezzins, the reciters with beautiful voices, the panegyrists, the clerks who record absences and the ushers; all of these are known among them as the arbāb. I appointed another class known as the ḥāshiya (retinue): the carpet-spreaders, the cooks, the runners (dawādawiyya), the ābdāriyya, who are the water-carriers, the sharbadāriyya who serve the drinks, the tanbūldāriyya who hand out the betel, the silaḥdāriyya (armour-bearers), the nīzadāriyya (lance-bearers), the shaṭrdāriyya (parasol-bearers), the ṭashtdāriyya (basin-bearers), the chamberlains and the heralds. Altogether they numbered four hundred and sixty.