تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.98.5

13.98.5

All the women in the island of Saylān have necklaces of coloured rubies, and they put them on their hands and feet in place of bracelets and anklets. The sultan's slave-girls make a net of them which they put on their heads. I saw on the forehead of the white elephant seven of these stones, each larger than a hen's egg, and I saw with Sultan Ayrī Shakrawatī a dish the size of the palm of the hand made of ruby, containing aloe-wood oil. I began to marvel at it, and he said, 'We have ones larger than that.'