تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.97.1

13.97.1

He [the sultan] is known as al-Kunār — with u after the k, a after the n, an alif and an r. He has the white elephant; I have not seen a white elephant anywhere in the world besides it. He rides it on festivals and places great rubies on its forehead. It happened to him that the men of his state rose against him, blinded him and made his son ruler, and he is there, blind.