Taj al-maʾathir 23.4

23.4

"Near the river of Sodra, Kutbu-d din killed four fierce tigers, at the roaring of which the heart was appalled," and on the day after crossing that river, he joined the camp of the king on the bank of the Jelam, and was received with royal kindness. "They mounted their horses and swam them like fish across the Jelam," "and on the bank of the river entered on their plans for the approaching action, and arranged all the preparations for fight, after joining together in consultation." Kutbu-d din suggested that it was not right for the king to expose his person against such enemies, and suggested that the command of the Musulman army should be entrusted to himself alone; but the persuasion of his general seem to have had no effect upon the resolution of the Sultan. — Description of the battle near the ford of the Jelam, the waves of which were filled with blood, and in which "the armies of infidelity and true faith commingled together like waves of the sea, and contended with each other like night and day, or light and darkness." Shamsu-d din was also engaged in this fight. — Extravaganzas upon spears and other weapons, and upon war-horses.