التاريخ اليميني 46.12

46.12

وعمد كلچند إلى قتالته ، فأهلك بها عرسه ، ثم كر فألحق بها نفسه. وأغنم الله السلطان مائة وخمسة وثمانين رأسا من الفيلة الضخام، مضافة إلى سائر ما اطرد عليه حكم الاغتنام ، من نعم الله العظام ، وقسمه [222 أ] الراجحة الأقسام.

Our swords which in breaking could pass through a rock, and make a mere tale of brilliant lightning, are cut off from cutting them, and glance away from their shoulders." Perhaps these wretches had placed themselves in the straight road to destruction, and recognized not the truth that such (fatuity) is the sign of rebels and deniers, and the marked path of their wickedness and undutifulness. They threw themselves then simultaneously into the river, in order that the abundant waters and powerful current might be the means of their preservation and safety ; and they knew not that, although water is the germ of life and the principle of vivification, Heaven's decree can render it the cause of destruction and ruin. This, however, the warrior comrades and eminent army of guides (to truth) made them know, by cutting off the fountain of infidelity and intercepting the rivulet of idolatry, so that some came to the sword and some were drowned in the water. Five thousand perished and went to hell, and Kaljam drew his dagger, killed his wife, and then, ripping himself up, became a partner of his forces on their road to hell. Of their wealth 185 head of elephants, with other kinds of profit and plunder, came to the Sultan. In that place, in the city, there was a place of worship of the Indian people ;