The History of Fīrūz Shāh (ʿAfīf) 32: Fourteenth Mukaddama. — Elephant hunt. Submission of the Rai of Jajnagar.

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[Hunt of the Elephants.] After some days the elephants were tired and were cut off from their pasture. The elephant-drivers then went into the jangal, and climbed up the trees; when the animals, weak with thirst and hunger, passed slowly under the trees, the drivers dropped down upon their backs, and, putting ropes and chains upon them, captured the whole eight.
After the hunt was over, the Sultán directed his attention to the Rai of Jajnagar, and entering the palace where he dwelt he found many fine buildings. It is reported that inside the Rai's fort there was a stone idol which the infidels called Jagannáth, and to which they paid their devotions. Sultán Fíroz, in emulation of Mahmúd Subuktigín, having rooted up the idol, carried it away to Dehlí, where he subsequently had it placed in an ignominious position. The Sultán then resolved upon pursuing the Rái into his island; but the Rái sent some of his Brahmans (pátar) to wait upon the Sultán. As Sultáns consult with their clear-sighted ministers, so do ráis, ránas, and zamíndárs take counsel with their mahtas on matters of war. In the country of Jájnagar the mahtas are called pátars; and the Rái of Jájnagar had twenty pátars, otherwise called mahtas, under whose advice he conducted all the affairs of his State. In great fear, the Rái sent five of these pátars to wait on the Sultán, and make his submission; when they represented, with much respect, that the Rái had long been a dependent and subject of the Sultán, and they desired to ascertain the Sultán's intentions.
When the Sultán had heard what they had to say, he replied that his intentions had been friendly. He had received certain information that elephants were as numerous as sheep in the jangal round the Rái's dwelling, and he had proceeded thither for the purpose of hunting. When he approached, the Rái fled in alarm, and took refuge in his islands. What was the cause of this flight? After explanations, the Rái sent twenty mighty elephants as an offering, and agreed to furnish certain elephants yearly in payment of revenue. The Sultán then sent robes and insignia by the mahtas to the Rái, he granted robes to them also, and then they returned home. After this the Sultán started on his return, taking with him, from the two countries of Lakhnautí and Jajnagar, seventy-three elephants, having stayed two years and seven months in those territories.