التاريخ اليميني 46.24

46.24

The forsaken one had thought that his helpers were the bold warriors of the cavalry troops, the defenders of the grey steeds and the archers of the battalions, until he saw the Sultan's army among those mountain passes, and their traces left by lances, cutting swords and bows that rained like clouds; then he knew that the stroke of one who plays differs from the stroke of a vengeful victor, and that the bow of the cotton-carder is not the bow of the archer. When the Sultan had settled the affair of Jandbāl and made him taste an incurable malady in his flight, he turned upon Chand Rāy—one of the great men of Hind, in the fortress of Sharwa—who supposed that the poet meant him when he said: