Twilight of the Sultanate c19.s1.9

c19.s1.9

Thus the unfortunate prisoners who lost their lives on that sanguine day were about fifty thousand and not one hundred thousand. They were both Hindus and Muslims and not only Hindus. Yazdī and his followers have inflated the figure in all probability to bestow honour on the conqueror, little realising that by exaggerating the ghastliness of the deed they were only discrediting their hero in the eyes of posterity.