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# The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.140

The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.140

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### [v2.c28.140](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c28.140)

² \*TA\* (\*Bibliotheca Indica\*), Trans., p. 12. Ibn ul-Athīr gives the number of the army as 56,000 cavalry, 184,000 (?) infantry and 746 elephants; see \*TKA\*, p. 216. The \*KZA\*, (p. 76) gives the figures as 36,000 cavalry, 145,000 (40,1000,5 ?) infantry and 640 elephants. Firishta gives the number as 36,000 cavalry, 45,000 infantry, and 640 elephants; Brigg's Trans., Vol. I, p. 64. As Firishta generally closely follows Niẓām ud-Dīn, 45,000 may be a mistake for 145,000.

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- [Tārīkh-i Firishta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta) — Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Firishta 1606, Persian

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