The Nāṣirī Generations 187.2.7

187.2.7

When night came, and the Musalman force encamped, a number [of the enemy], who had been made prisoners, were brought forward, and they [the Musalmans] made inquiry of them. They stated on this wise, that, five leagues’ distance from that place, there was a city which they called Kar-battan [or Kar-pattan, or Karar-pattan], and [that] in that place would be about 50,000 valiant Turk horsemen, archers; and that, immediately upon the arrival of the Musalman cavalry before the fort, messengers with a complaint had gone off to the city to give information, and that, at dawn next morning, those horsemen would arrive. The author, when he was in the territory of Lakhanawati, made inquiry respecting that [before] mentioned city. It is a city of great size, and the whole of its walls are of hewn stone, and [its inhabitants] are an assemblage of Brahmans and Nunis, and that city is under the authority of their Mihtar [chief or lord], and they hold the pagan faith; and every day, at daybreak, in the cattle-market of that city, about one thousand five hundred horses are sold; and all the tangahan horses which reach the Lakhanawati country they bring from that place. The route by which they come is the Mahamha-i [or Mahanmha-i] Darah [Pass] and this road in that country is well known; for example, from the territory of Kamrud to that of Tirhut are thirty-five mountain passes, by which they bring the tangahan horses into the territory of Lakhanawati.