Muntakhab al-tawarikh 22.1.7

22.1.7

It is apparently the date of the siege which accounts for the difference of one year. And in the year 631 H. having made an incursion in the direction of the province of Malwah and taken Bhilsa, and also captured the city of Ujain, and having destroyed the idol temple of Ujain which had been built six hundred years previously, and was called Mahakal, he levelled it to its foundations, and threw down the image of Rai Vikramajit from whom the Hindus reckon their era (the author of this selection, by the order of the Khalifa of the time, the Emperor, the Shadow of the Deity, in the year 972 H. and again anew in the year 1003 with the assistance of Hindu pundits translated 32 stories about him, which are a wonder of relation and strange circumstance, from the Hindui into the Persian tongue and called it Nama Afza — ) and brought certain other images of cast molten brass placed them on the ground in front of the door of the mosque of old Dehli and ordered the people to trample them underfoot: and a second time he brought an army against Multan, this expedition was in every way unfortunate for him, and a very severe bodily illness afflicted him, he so returned and came to Dehli, and in the year 633 H, (1235 A. D.) left this lodging house of the world for the eternal mansions of the next world. The duration of his sultanate was twenty-six years. Verse. For this reason this heart-enthralling palace became cold. Because when you have warmed the place, they say to you Rise!