تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.2.7

13.2.7

على بهاء الدين وأسلمه إلى عسكر السلطان، فقيدوه وغلوه وأتوا به اليه، فلما أتي به إليه أمر بادخاله إلى قرابته من النساء فشتمنه وبصقن في وجهه، وأمر بسلخه وهو بقيد الحياة، فسلخ وطبخ لحمه مع الأرز، وبعث لأولاده وأهله وجعل باقيه في صحفة وطرح للفيلة لتأكله، فأبت أكله! وأمر بجلده فحشى بالتبن وقرن بجلد بهادور بوره وطيف بهما على البلاد.

Bahāʾ al-Dīn and handed him over to the Sultan's army. They fettered him, chained him by the neck and brought him to [the Sultan]. When he was brought before him, he ordered him to be taken in to his female relatives, who reviled him and spat in his face. Then he ordered him to be flayed alive; he was flayed, and his flesh was cooked with rice and sent to his children and family, and the rest of it was put in a dish and thrown to the elephants to eat, but they refused to eat it! He ordered his skin to be stuffed with straw and joined with the skin of Bahādūr Būra, and the two were paraded through the provinces.