Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.6.2

78.6.2

and especially at a time when suitable royal occupations, such as exercise and hunting, were therein involved — for these reasons, in this year of happy augury, after his return from his journey to Malwah, when the friends of the empire were victorious, and the enemies of the kingdom had been disappointed, by the light of a genius lofty in its aims, and impression of a mind world-adorning, it being his pleasure to make the place called G’hrawali (which is a new hunting ground, and in respect of the excellence of its water, and the pleasantness of its air, has over a host of places a superiority and a perfect excellence) the camping-place of his imperial host, and the encampment of his ever-enduring prosperity, and when he had gained repose for his heaven-inspired mind from the annoyances incidental to city-life, he spent his felicity-marked moments, sometimes in hawking, sometimes in racing Arabian dogs, and sometimes in other chase of various kinds;