Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s4.45

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⁴ Compare for dan p. (hin), 177, 323. Compare a few illustrations to form an idea of Muslim establishments. In the Khanqah of Sidi Maula in Delhi, 2,000 maunds of fine flour, 500 maund of ordinary flour, 300 maunds of unrefined, and 20 maunds of fine sugar were consumed every day. (Vide B., 208-9); also T.F., I, 161. The above-mentioned Afghan noble Khvas Khan maintained an establishment for the poor which contained 2,500 separate apartments for their housing. For every person, irrespective of considerations of age or need, two seers of corn was fixed as the daily allowance. Besides this permanent establishment, he had other tents pitched to house the poor and widows wherever he moved about in the country. Here also rations, clothes, and bedding were supplied. We have already spoken of the charity establishments sometimes attached to the mausoleums of the Sultans.