[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Arabic](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar) › [History](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh) › [التاريخ اليميني](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini) › 25.2 # التاريخ اليميني 25.2 التاريخ اليميني 25.2 - **Language:** Arabic ### [25.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.25.2) ودارت رحى الطعان والضراب، طاحنة كل ندب شجاع، وقرم مطاع. وامتدت الوقعة من طفولة النهار إلى كهولة الطفل ، حتى اكتست الأرض لون الشقائق من دماء الطلى والعواتق. وكادت تدور للكفار دائرة لو لا أن الله أعان السلطان على حملة في خواص غلمانه، كسعت \[163 أ\] أدبارهم، ومحت عن مقاماتهم آثارهم، وأغنمه ثلاثين فيلا كأشخاص القصور، بل كأمواج البحور. وأقبل أولياؤه يحسونهم أنى يثقفونهم من بطون الأودية والشعاب، وظهور الفيافي والهضاب، واقتفى السلطان بنفسه أثره بين تلك المهارب متنجزا وعد الله في نصرة دينه، وتل كل ذي نفاق وشقاق لجبينه، فأفضى به الطلب إلى بهيم نغر أحصن قلعة بنيت على حرف طود رفيع، خلال ماء منيع. > The Sultan, contrary to the disposition of man, which induces him to prefer a soft to a hard couch, and the splendour of the cheeks of pomegranate-bosomed girls to well-tempered sword blades, was so offended at the standard which Satan had raised in Hind, that he determined on another holy expedition to that land. On the last day of Rabi'u-l-akhir of the same year, the Sultan prayed God for the accomplishment of his wishes. When he had reached as far as the river of Waihind, he was met by Brahmanpal, the son of Andpal, at the head of a valiant array, with white swords, blue spears, yellow coats of mail, and ash-coloured elephants. Fight opened its crooked teeth, attacks were frequent like flaming meteors, arrows fell like rain from bows, and the grinding-stone of slaughter revolved, crushing the bold and the powerful. The battle lasted from morning till evening, and the infidels were near gaining the victory, had not God aided by sending the slaves of the household to attack the enemy in rear, and put them to flight. The victors obtained thirty large elephants, and slew the vanquished wherever they were found in jungles, passes, plains, and hills. > — Henry Miers Elliot & John Dowson 1869, Tárikh Yamíní (extracts) > The Sultan himself joined in the pursuit, and went after them as far as the fort called Bhímnagar, which is very strong, situated on the promontory of a lofty hill, in the midst of impassable waters. The kings of Hind, the chiefs of that country, and rich devotees, used to amass their treasures and precious jewels, and send them time after time to be presented to the large idol that they might receive a reward for their good deeds and draw near to their God. So the Sultan advanced near to this crow's fruit, and this accumulation of years, which had attained such an amount that the backs of camels would not carry it, nor vessels contain it, nor writers hands record it, nor the imagination of an arithmetician conceive it. > The Sultan brought his forces under the fort and surrounded it, and prepared to attack the garrison vigorously, boldly, and wisely. When the defenders saw the hills covered with the armies of plunderers, and the arrows ascending towards them like flaming sparks of fire, great fear came upon them, and, calling out for mercy, they opened the gates, and fell on the earth, like sparrows before a hawk, or rain before lightning. Thus did God grant an easy conquest of this fort to the Sultan, and bestowed on him as plunder the products of mines and seas, the ornaments of heads and breasts, to his heart's content. The Sultan entered the fort with Abu Nasr Ahmad bin Muhammad Farighuni, the ruler of Juzjan, and all his own private attendants, and appointed his two chief chamberlains, Altuntash and Asightigin, to take charge of the treasures of gold and silver and all the valuable property, while he himself took charge of the jewels. The treasures were laden on the backs of as many camels as they could procure, and the officers carried away the rest. The stamped coin amounted to seventy thousand thousand royal dirhams, and the gold and silver ingots amounted to seven hundred thousand four hundred mans in weight, besides wearing apparel and fine cloths of Sus, respecting which old men said they never remembered to have seen any so fine, soft, and embroidered. Among the booty was a house of white silver, like to the houses of rich men, the length of which was thirty yards and the breadth fifteen. It could be taken to pieces and put together again. And there was a canopy, made of the fine linen of Rum, forty yards long and twenty broad, supported on two golden and two silver poles, which had been cast in moulds. > The Sultan appointed one of his most confidential servants to the charge of the fort and the property in it. After this he returned to Ghazna in triumph; and, on his arrival there, he ordered the court-yard of his palace to be covered with a carpet, on which he displayed jewels and unbored pearls and rubies, shining like sparks, or like wine congealed with ice, and emeralds like fresh sprigs of myrtle, and diamonds in size and weight like pomegranates. Then ambassadors from foreign countries, including the envoy from Taghan Khan, king of Turkistan, assembled to see the wealth which they had never yet even read of in books of the ancients, and which had never been accumulated by kings of Persia or of Rum, or even by Karun, who had only to express a wish and God granted it. > — Henry Miers Elliot & John Dowson 1869, Tárikh Yamíní (extracts) - [Previous: 25.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.25.1) - [Next: 25.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.25.3) - [Up: 25](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.25) ## Translations (2) - [Tárikh Yamíní (extracts)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini~en-elliot.11) — Henry Miers Elliot & John Dowson 1869, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini~en-mt.25.2) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.25.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.25.2) · Pramāṇa