Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 75.2.7
History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 75.2.7
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75.2.7
and the infidels, admiring their valour, took them both prisoners without injury, and carried them before Dew Ray, who caused them to be kept in confinement. Alla-ood-Deen Shah, upon this, wrote to him, that he valued the lives of the two chiefs equal to that of two hundred thousand common men, therefore, as it was a rule with the princes of his family to slay a hundred thousand Hindoos in revenge for the death of a single Mussulman, he swore, should Dew Ray take away the lives of the two captive officers, he would revenge the death of each by the slaughter of a hundred thousand Hindoos.