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³ Tajul Maasir I. O., No. 1486, f. 34. See Ferishta, I. p. 58, who obviously borrowed from Ibnul Asir, XI, p. 43-4, for the story of Muizzuddin's feint to throw Prithviraja off his guard which succeeded remarkably well and was taken full advantage of. Cf. Ray: Dynastic History, II, pp. 1010-1013, where it is fully reproduced from Raverty's supposed quotation from the Tajul Maasir. Hasan Nizami, however, does not mention the story at all, and Ibnul Asir's account is admittedly based on questionable authority. See Isami, Futuhus-Salatin, p. 71-2, for the ingeneous manner in which Muizzuddin provided for the lack of elephants whose presence in the Indian army frightened his horses.