تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.56.1

13.56.1

ولما رد ابن أخت الوزير إليه أمر به أن يقتل كما قتل أصحابه وكانت له جارية يحبها فاستحضرها وأطعمها التنبول وأطعمته وعانقها مودعا ثم طرح للفيلة، وسلخ جلده وملى تبنا، فلما كان من الليل خرجت الجارية من الدار فرمت بنفسها في بئر هنالك تقرب من الموضع الذي قتل فيه فوجدت ميتة من الغد فأخرجت ودفن لحمه معها في قبر واحد، وسمى ذلك قبور عاشقان، وتفسير ذلك بلسانهم قبر العاشقين.

When the vizier's nephew was sent back to him, he ordered that he be killed as his companions had been. He had a slave girl whom he loved; he summoned her, fed her betel and she fed him, and he embraced her in farewell. Then he was thrown to the elephants, and his skin was flayed and stuffed with straw. When night came, the slave girl left the house and threw herself into a well there near the place where he had been killed. She was found dead the next day and taken out, and his flesh was buried with her in a single grave, which was called Qubūr ʿĀshiqān, which in their language means 'the grave of the lovers'.