Muntakhab al-tawarikh 4.1.9

4.1.9

At the taking of the fortress of Qanauj eighty-five elephants and a boundless amount of spoil fell into the hands of the troops. From thence he went to Mathra which is a place of worship of the infidels, and the birth place of Kishan, the son of Basudev, whom the Hindus worship as a divinity — where there are idol temples without number, and took it without any contest, and rased it to the ground. Great wealth and booty fell into the hands of the Muslims, among the rest they broke up by the orders of the Sultan, a golden idol, the weight of which was simple eight thousand three hundred of refined gold and a piece of sapphire whose weight was four hundred and fifty misqals, besides a celebrated elephant of huge size, like a mountain, belonging to Raja Gobind Chand, one of the Rajas of Hindustan, which the Sultan had long earnestly sought to buy, but which was not to be had. By chance one night, when they were returning, this elephant broke loose and came into the Sultan's camp without a keeper. The Sultan was greatly pleased with its capture, and gave it the name of Khudadad. When the spoil reached Ghaznin it was found to amount to over twenty million and fifty-three thousand dirams, and three hundred and fifty odd elephants.