تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.47.16

13.47.16

وغلبتني عيني فلم أفق إلا لسقوطي على الأرض فاستيقظت ولم أر للرجل أثرا، وإذا أنا في قرية عامرة فدخلتها فوجدتها لرعية الهنود، وحاكمها من المسلمين، فأعلموه بي فجاء إلي فقلت له: ما اسم هذه القرية؟ فقال لي: تاج بوره ، وبينها وبين مدينة كول حيث أصحابنا فرسخان، وحملني ذلك الحاكم إلى بيته فأطعمني طعاما سخنا واغتسلت وقال لي: عندي ثوب وعمامة أودعهما عندي رجل عربي مصري من أهل المحلة التي بكول، فقلت له:

Mount on my shoulders.” I said to him “You are weak, and have not strength for that,” but he replied “God will give me strength. You must do so.” So I got up on his shoulders and he said to me “Say God is sufficient for us and an excellent guardian.” I repeated this over and over again, but I could not keep my eyes open, and regained consciousness only on feeling myself falling to the ground. Then I woke up, but found no trace of the man, and lo! I was in an inhabited village. I entered it and found it was a village of Hindu peasants with a Muslim governor. They informed him about me and he came to meet me. I asked him the name of this village and he replied “Taj Biira.” The distance from there to Koel, where our party was, is two farsakhs. The governor provided a horse to take me to his house and gave me hot food, and I washed. Then he said to me: “I have here a garment and a turban which were left in my charge by a certain Arab from Egypt, one of the soldiers belonging to the corps at Koel.” I said to him “Bring them; I shall wear them until I reach camp.” When he brought them I found that they were two of my own garments which I had given to that very Arab when we came to Koel.