The Chachnāma (Fatḥnāma-yi Sind) 17.5

17.5

Numberless horses and weapons of war also fell into their hands. When the day broke, all the prisoners were brought to Dahar who was for slaying them all, but the wazir interceded, and said: “Be grateful when the great God has given you victory, and offer Him thanks. It is a rule of the royal code that whenever kings and great men gain a victory, and chiefs and nobles of the enemy’s party fall into their hands, they should be pardoned. So the right course for you to adopt is to set the prisoners at liberty, and spare their lives.’ Following this suggestion of the wazir, king Dahar released the captives, and was so much pleased with him that he said: “O wise wazir, O blessed counsellor, do ask some favour of me.” The wazir said: “I have no child to keep alive my name. Do you order, that on all the silver coins that are made in the royal mint, my name be struck on the reverse as the name of the king is struck on the obverse, since thereby the name of this humble servant will last long on the royal seal owing to its being coupled with that of the king, and will not be forgotten in Hind and Sind.” The king passed such a decree. Thereafter Dahar’s sovereignty was firmly established and his power and pomp attained such a climax that he seized the presents destined for the capital of the Khalifahs, and became refractory and insolent to them.