التاريخ اليميني 46.16

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 .

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.