Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c6.s3.t1.25

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Aibak in Delhi. Muhammad Tughluq assigned for it an allowance of 100,000 maunds of wheat and rice. The rations for the poor and needy were fixed at 12 maunds of flour and a similar quantity of corn per day. In times of scarcity Ibn Batuta (who was supervising the arrangements) raised the allowance to 35 maunds of wheat and flour with a proportionate addition to the quantity of sugar, ghi and betel-leaves. (Vide K.R., II, 85); also G., 25-6. Compare also Macauliffe I, 181 for the offer of Guru Nanak of his famous minstrel, Mardana, to raise a mausoleum over his grave after the death of the latter.