تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.53.1

13.53.1

When the great famine struck the land of Hind because of drought, while the Sultan was in the land of Tilank, he issued an order that the people of Dihlī be given enough to sustain them, at the rate of a raṭl and a half per person per day. The vizier assembled them and distributed the poor among them to the amīrs and qāḍīs so that they would take charge of feeding them. With me there were