Muntakhab al-tawarikh 64.9

64.9

Heavy slabs of stone and massive pillars were hurled through the air to a distance of several krohs across the river Jamna, and great number of people were killed, in fact human hands and feet, and the limbs of all kinds of animals were thrown five or six krohs. As the name of the Citadel of Agra was originally Bādal Garh, the words Ātash-i-Bādal garh made a chronogram to record the date. In the days when Hīmūn blockaded the fortress of Biāna God's people were crying for bread and taking each other's lives, a hundred thousand sacred lives were as nought for a single grain of barley, whereas the elephants of Hīmūn's army, which numbered five hundred, were fed solely upon rice, and oil, and sugar, the senses were shattered by anguish upon anguish in that terrible time— Verse. We cherish enemies, we also destroy friends, What mortal has the power to question our decrees?