تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.83.11

13.83.11

The profit of the treasury, which they call the bandar, is that it buys a share of every commodity on a ship at a fixed price, whether the commodity is worth that or more, and they call this the law of the bandar. In every island the bandar has a wooden building which they call the bajanṣār, with a on the b and the j, n without a vowel, a on the ṣ, and ending in r, in which the governor, who is the kardūrī, collects all its goods, and there he sells and buys. They buy pottery, when it is brought to them, with chickens, so that among them a pot sells for five or six chickens.