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²⁵ *T.M.S.* p. 87. The so-called cruelties of Nāṣiruddin were multiplied by later writers. Thus Ibn Baṭṭūṭah writes that he prohibited cow-slaughter and ordered the Musalmans to paste the walls of their houses with cow dung,—a Hindu practice. Niẓāmuddin Aḥmad goes a step further and says that Khusrau ordered destruction of mosques (*Tab. Akb.* p. 187). It is really strange how these atrocities escaped the notice of Barani, 'Iṣāmī and Amīr Khusrau. In all probability Baṭṭūṭah and Niẓāmuddin indulge in gross exaggerations.