[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928) › v3.c20.232 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.232 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.232 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c20.232](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.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.’ - [Previous: v3.c20.231](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c20.231) - [Next: v3.c20.233](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c20.233) - [Up: v3.c20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c20) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c20.232](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.haig-1928.v3.c20.232) · Pramāṇa