مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.37

2.37

and they in particular [1], and the people of India in general, follow the school of Abū Ḥanīfa, may God be pleased with him. He [2] has three thousand elephants, verified, which in wars wear bargustuwāns [3] of gilded iron; in times of peace they wear caparisons of brocade [4], figured silk and kinds of silk, and are adorned with pavilions and plated litters, and towers of nailed wood are bound on them, in which the men of India take their fighting positions. On an elephant there are from ten men to six men, according to what the elephant can carry. He has twenty thousand Turkish mamlūks.