تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.2.7
English (machine translation) 13.2.7
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13.2.7
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.
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- تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic