South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c11.15

c11.15

Amir Khusru in this work of his, Tarikh-i-’Alai, brings the campaign to a close with this. The number of elephants that Malik Kafur captured extended over a length of three parasangs according to him and counted 512 in number. He had besides taken five thousand horses and five hundred maunds of jewels of every description, diamonds, pearls, emeralds and rubies.