IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Cathay and the way thither : vol.2 | |
| 中国および中国への道 : vol.2 |
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引用情報
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 407
The king was then absent at Kanauj, but on hearing of the arrival of Il)n Batuta with the rest, he ordered an assignment in his behalf of three villages, producing a total rent of 5,000 silver dinars, and on his return to the capital received the traveller kindly, and gave him a further present of 12,000 dinars, with the appointment of Kazi of Dehli, to which a salary of the same amount was attached.'
Ibn Batuta continued for about eight years in the service of Mahomed Shah, though it seems doubtful how far he was occupied
in his judicial duties. Indeed, he describes Dehli, though one of the grandest cities in the Mahomedan world, as nearly deserted
during his residence there. The traveller's good fortune seems only to have fostered his natural extravagance ; for at an early period of his stay at the capital he had incurred debts to the amount of 55,000 dinars of silver, which, after long importunity, he got the Sultan to pay. Indeed, by his own account, he seems to have hung like a perfect horse-leech on the king's bounty.
When Mahomed Tughlak was about to proceed to Maabar to put down an insurrection? Ibn Batuta expected to accompany him, and prepared an outfit for the march on his usual free scale of expenditure.3 At the last moment, however, he was ordered,
1 Respecting the value of these dinars, see Note A at the end of this Introduction. The three villages assigned to the traveller lay at sixteen koss from Dehli, he says, and were called Badll, BasahI, and Balarah. They lay in the Sadi or Hundred of Hindû-but (or the Hindu Idol; so Defrémery reads it, but the original as he gives it seems rather to read Hindabat, and may represent Indrapat, the name of one of the old cities of Dehli still existing. Probably the villages could be identified on the Indian Atlas). Two were added later, Jauzah and Malikpûr.
2 This must have been on the occasion of the revolt of the Sharif Jalaluddin Ahsan in Maabar. The French editors, in the careful chronological table of the events of Mahomed's reign which is embraced in their Preface to the third volume, place this expedition in 1341-42. The sultan fell ill at Warangol, and returned speedily to Daulatabad and Dehli.
8 His account of the outfit required by a gentleman travelling in India shows how little such things have changed there in five hundred years, say from 1340 to 1840. (Now they are changing !) He mentions the set of tents and saim ns (or canvas enclosure walls) to be purchased ; men to carry the tents on their shoulders (this is never the practice now); the grass cutters to supply the horses and cattle with grass ; the bearers (kandron) to carry the kitchen utensils on their shoulders, and also to
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