Battutah, March 26

Battutah enters the capital of Dihli and goes directly to the sultans court. Battutah stayed in Dihli for some time and received a graet hospitality form the sultan; a mansion and everything that he needed. While in Dihli Battutah is informed that his daughter has died and because of that he send some slave girls for her burial (however, I do not understand why he did not go himselve?). He is alos mentioning some rituals and things that people bring to the funerals; he talks about putting shoes of the dead on their head. One thing that seems interesting to me is the sittuation when Battutah owned some money to some merchants. He did not have any money to pay back, so he came up with the idea of writing a ode for the sultan, in which he praised him. The sultan liked it and gave him the money needed to regulate his debt. Battutah was also asked by the sultan to go to China as his ambassador and is supplied with whatever he needs for that journey.