The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.232

v3.c20.232

Numbers of these prisoners were decapitated and others were crushed under the feet of elephants, and ‘spears without number bore their heads aloft, and appeared denser than a forest of bamboos.’ A few were preserved and kept in confinement. These were sent from city to city for exhibition, and, as the poet again observes, ‘sometimes they had respite and sometimes punishment.’