The History of Fīrūz Shāh (ʿAfīf) 22: Fourth Mukaddama. — Return of Firoz Shah to Delhi.

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When the Sultan resolved upon returning home from Bengal all his followers were much pleased. An order was given for collecting the heads of the slain Bengalis, and a silver tanka was offered for every head. The whole army went busily to work, and brought in the heads of the slain and piled them in heaps, receiving in payment the silver tankas. The heads were counted and amounted to rather more than 180,000, for the battle had raged for a whole day over an extent of seven kos. * * * The Sultán then turned with his army and marched quickly towards Dehli. When he reached Pandwah, the khutba was said in his name, and he changed the name of the place to Firozábád. The new names which he gave to Ikdála and Pandwah were made permanent and were entered in the Government records as "Ázád-pur, otherwise Ikdála," and "Firozábád, otherwise Pandwah." When the Sultán arrived on the banks of the Kosi the rains came on, and orders were given for the troops to embark in boats (kishtíhá-i band-kushá). The whole army thus crossed over. When Shamsu-d dín entered Ikdála, he seized the Governor, who had shut the gates, and had him executed.
As the Sultán was returning, he sent forward to Dehli a despatch announcing his conquest of Lakhnauti. Khán-i Jahán Makbúl had been left in Dehli as deputy, and when the news of the victory arrived, great rejoicings were carried on for twenty-one days, * * * and great preparations were made for the reception of the Sultán. * * * When he entered the city, forty-eight elephants, captured at Lakhnauti with their howdahs and housings, marched at the head of the victorious army. * * * In this, the Sultán's first expedition to Lakhnauti, he was engaged eleven months.