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He saw what runs contrary to custom, and whose reporters would need witnesses, nay, eyewitness sight. A city whose wall was built of solid rock, with two gates opening from it onto the water that surrounds it, its buildings set upon lofty hills to protect them from the harm of floods and the raids of the sky's rains. On its two sides stood a thousand palaces, like the other buildings in solidity, containing idol-temples whose joints were fitted together with nails flush with the surfaces of the masonry, hiding the grooves behind them out of sight. In the centre of the city was an idol-temple that matched its sisters or surpassed them, and kept pace with its peers, nay, was more finely wrought; neither scribes with the pens of the inkwell nor painters with the tips of their brushes could achieve its like in beauty and adornment, and in carvings that dazzle the eyes with their brilliance. \[222 b\] > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > and when he came to that place he saw a city, of wonderful fabric and conception, so that one might say, this is a building of Paradise, but its accidents or qualities could only come by the aid of the infernals, and an intelligent man would hardly receive favourably the account of it. They had brought immense stones, and had laid a level foundation upon high stairs (or steps). Around it and at its sides they had placed one thousand castles, built of stone, which they had made idol temples, and had (cemented) fastened them well. And in the midst of the city they had built a temple higher than all, to delineate the beauty and decoration of which the pens of all writers and the pencils of all painters would be powerless, and would not be able to attain to the power of fixing their minds upon it and considering it. In the memoir which the Sultan wrote of this journey he thus declares, that if any one should undertake to build a fabric like that he would expend thereon one hundred thousand packets of a thousand dinars, and would not complete it in two hundred years, with the assistance of the most ingenious masters (architects). And amongst the mass of idols there were five idols made of pure gold, of the height of five cubits in the air; > — James Reynolds 1858, The Kitab-i-Yamini ### [46.14](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.46.14) وكان فيما كتب السلطان به أنه لو أراد مريد أن يبني ما يعادل أشباه هذه الأبنية، لعجز عنها بإنفاق مائة ألف ألف درهم، في مدة مائتي سنة، على أيدي عملة كملة، ومهرة سحرة. > Among what the Sultan wrote was that if anyone wished to build the equal of such buildings, he would be unable to do so though he spent a hundred thousand thousand dirhams over a period of two hundred years at the hands of accomplished workmen and magician-like masters. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [46.15](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.46.15) وفي جملة الأصنام خمسة من الذهب الأحمر مضروبة، على قدر خمسة أذرع في الهواء منصوبة، قد ألقمت عينا واحد منها ياقوتتين لو سيم مثلهما على السلطان لا بتاعهما بخمسين ألف دينار استرخاصا، ولم يستثن فيه دركا ولا خلاصا . وعلى آخر قطعة ياقوت أزرق أروى من ريق الماء، وبريق البهاء ، تتزن أربعمائة وخمسين مثقالا. وخرج من وزن قدمي أحد الأصنام المذكورة أربعة آلاف وأربعمائة مثقال. > Among the idols were five of red gold, beaten, standing five cubits high in the air. Into the two eyes of one of them two rubies had been set; had their like been offered to the Sultan, he would have bought them for fifty thousand dinars, thinking it cheap, and would have made no stipulation of liability or warranty. On another was a piece of blue ruby more lustrous than limpid water and radiant splendour, weighing four hundred and fifty mithqāls. The two feet of one of the said idols weighed four thousand four hundred mithqāls. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > and of this collection of idols there were (specially) two, on one of which a jacinth was arranged, such a one that if the Sultan had seen it exposed in the Bazar, he would have considered as underpriced at fifty thousand dinars, and would have bought it with great eagerness. And upon the other idol there was a sapphire (hyacinth) of one solid piece, of azure water, of the value of four hundredweights of fine miskals {five weights of a dram and a-half) each, and from the two feet of an idol they obtained the weight of 400,400 miskals of gold. And the idols of silver were a hundred times more, so that it occupied those who estimated their standard weight a long time in weighing them. They devastated (all that city) and passed therefrom towards Kanuj, and the Sultan took an augury thereon from the Koran, and left behind much of his army, in order that, perchance, Haipal (or Jaipal) Rajah of Hind, when he saw the small number of his chieftains, might return, and consider it disgraceful to pall in resolution, before first engaging in battle or conflict, for he was the chief of the princes of India, and all submitted their necks in obedience to him (bowed their heads) and acknowledged his high rank, and great power and dignity. And, throughout all the extent of this expedition, at whatever region he arrived and whatever fortress the Sultan saw, he took possession of it, and devastated it, plundering and taking captives. > — James Reynolds 1858, The Kitab-i-Yamini ### [46.16](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.46.16) وكانت جملة الذهبيات الموجودة عن أجرام الأشخاص المنصوبة ثمانية وتسعين ألفا وثلاثمائة مثقال. وزادت الفضيات منها على مائتي قطعة، لم يمكن وزنها إلا بعد التفصيل، والعرض على كفف المعابير. وأمر السلطان من بعد بسائر بيوت الأصنام ، فضربت بالنفط والضرام، وجعلت سقوفها مواطى ء الأقدام . > The total of gold obtained from the bodies of the standing figures was ninety-eight thousand three hundred mithqāls. The silver ones exceeded two hundred pieces, which could not be weighed until they were broken up and placed on the pans of the scales. Then the Sultan gave orders concerning the rest of the idol-temples, and they were struck with naphtha and fire, and their roofs were made places for feet to tread. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (3) - [The Kitab-i-Yamini](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini~en-reynolds.50.1.7) — James Reynolds 1858, English - [Tárikh Yamíní (extracts)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini~en-elliot.20) — Henry Miers Elliot & John Dowson 1869, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini~en-mt.46.13) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.46.13-16](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.tarikh.yamini.46.13-16) · Pramāṇa