تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.51.2

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in their country! He had a son who came close to him in courage. It happened that once he raided a village of the infidels with a band of his slaves, and his horse fell with him into a pit. The people of the village gathered around him and one of them struck him with a qattāra (qattāra is spelled with a hard q and a dotted t): an iron implement like a ploughshare into which a man puts his hand, so that it covers his forearm, and a length of two cubits projects beyond it; its blow leaves nothing alive. He killed him with that blow. His slaves fought most fiercely and overpowered the village, killed its men, took captive its women and whatever was in it, and brought the horse out of the pit unharmed. They brought it to his son, and by a strange coincidence he rode the horse and set out for Dihlī; the infidels came out against him and he fought them until he was killed. The horse returned to his companions and they handed it over to his family; a kinsman of his by marriage rode it, and the infidels killed him on it too! Then we travelled to the city of Kālyūr (its name is spelled with a hard k with a, l with i, the last letter of the alphabet [y] with u, then w and r); it is also called Kiyālīr. It is a large city with an impregnable, isolated fortress on top of a lofty height; at its gate is the figure of an elephant with its mahout, of stone, which has already been mentioned under the name of Sultan Quṭb al-Dīn. The amīr of this city was Aḥmad b. Sīr Khān, a virtuous man, who treated me with honour during my stay with him before this journey.