التاريخ اليميني 19.27

19.27

God opened to the Sultan a land of the realms of Hind beside which the lands of Khurāsān shrink in length and breadth. This battle, whose effect was dazzling and whose report spread to the horizons, fell on Thursday, the eighth of Muḥarram in the year three hundred and ninety-two. When this war had laid down its burdens and set down its loads from the backs, the Sultan wished to send Jaypāl back, so that his sons and kin might see him in the garb of shame and the bonds of loss, and so that the awe of Islam might spread through the lands of the infidels. He came to terms with him for fifty head of light elephants, and took as hostages a son and a grandson of his to ensure their full delivery.