Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.27.5

78.27.5

On the 23rd of the month Çafar mentioned above the Emperor encamped at Payág, which is commonly called Ilahabas, where the waters of the Ganges and Jumna unite. The infidels consider this a holy place, and with a desire to obtain the rewards which are promised in their creed, of which transmigration is one of the most prominent features, they submit themselves to all kinds of tortures. Some place their brainless heads under saws, others split their deceitful tongues in two, others enter Hell by casting themselves down into the deep river from the top of a high tree: “Although he committed the crime for the sake of reward, He went to Hell all the same by that road of water.”