History of the Khaljis, A.D. 1290–1320 c7.s3.11

c7.s3.11

This bold and candid piece of advice impressed the Sultan; he could now clearly discern the impracticability of his grandoise schemes. ‘Alāulmulk was generously rewarded with a “garment wrought in gold with pictures of tigers, a woven belt, half *man* gold, ten thousand *tankahs*, two caparisoned horses and two villages”, and he was raised head and shoulder above the other nobles of the state.³⁶