تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.45.1

13.45.1

The king of al-Ṣīn had sent the Sultan one hundred mamlūks and slave-girls, five hundred robes of kamkhā silk, of which one hundred were of the kind made in the city of al-Zaytūn and one hundred of the kind made in the city of al-Khansā, five manns of musk, five robes studded with jewels, five embroidered quivers and five swords, and he asked the Sultan to permit him to build the idol-temple near the mountain of Qarājīl mentioned earlier. The place where it stands is known as Samhal, with a on the unpointed s, the m unvowelled and a on the h; the people of al-Ṣīn make pilgrimage to it. The army of Islam in Hind had taken it, destroyed it and plundered it.