مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.112

2.112

There has fallen to this Sultan who now rules it what fell to none of the kings of this realm before him: victory and ascendancy, the conquest of kingdoms, the demolition of the strongholds of the infidels, the undoing of the sorcerers' knots, and the abolition of the images and statues with which the Indians used to excuse themselves. Nothing remains except a small, scattered and rare remnant within the seas, of no account (and with no landmark for them in the time of this Sultan, until he completes it and washes away with the sword what remains (manuscript p. 31) of it). So the assemblies of India have become fragrant with mention of him, more sweetly than with their own perfume, and his age has adorned itself with them at a higher value than their jewels. Today he gathers the outskirts of those regions and holds the girdle of the lands and seas; when one says today "the Sultan of India", it is applied to none but him, and this noble title is valid only for the one who bears it.