The Nāṣirī Generations 187.1.5

187.1.5

When that victory was effected, Muhammad-i-Bakht-yar returned with great booty, and came to the presence of the beneficent Sultan Kutb-ud-Din, I-bak, and received great honour and distinction. A party of Amirs at the capital [Dihli], through the noising abroad of Muhammad-i-Bakht-yar’s praises, and, at beholding the honour he received, and the gifts bestowed upon him by Sultan Kutb-ud-Din, became envious of Muhammad-i-Bakht-yar, and, at a convivial banquet, they treated him in a reproachful and supercilious manner, and were deriding him and uttering inuendoes; and matters reached such a pitch that he was directed to combat with an elephant at the Kasr-i-Safed [White Castle]. With one blow, which he dealt the elephant on the trunk with his mace, the elephant fled discomfited. When Muhammad-i-Bakht-yar gained that distinction, Sultan Kutb-ud-Din ordered him a rich robe of honour from his own special wardrobe, and conferred considerable presents upon him. The Sultan [likewise] commanded the Amirs to make him presents, and he received such a number of gifts as could not be contained within the limits of writing. Muhammad-i-Bakht-yar moreover, in that same assembly, dispersed the whole of those presents and bestowed them upon the people; and, with the special imperial honorary robe, he departed, and set out towards Bihar.