التاريخ اليميني 25.5

25.5

He entered it together with the governor of al-Jūzjān, Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farīghūnī, and the rest of his intimates, and he put his two senior chamberlains, Altūntāsh and Āsightigin, in charge of the treasuries of gold and silver and of all the other objects of rank and value, while he himself took charge of the treasury of jewels. He carried off from it as much as the backs of his camels could bear, and had the leading men [164a] of his troops carry the rest. The amount of silver removed came to seventy million Shāhī dirhams, and of gold and silver vessels seven hundred thousand four hundred mann in weight; and of the various kinds of Tustarī cloths and Sūsī brocades so much that the elders of the age and those advanced in years declared that they had never known their like in workmanship, striping, floral patterning and fineness. Among what was found was a house of pure silver, the equal of the houses of the wealthy, thirty cubits long and fifteen cubits wide, made of beaten plates fitted to be folded and unfolded, set up and taken down; and a canopy of Byzantine brocade, forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, with two poles of gold and two others of cast silver.