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Kāmil-ut-Tawārīkh that no one would have recognised Jayacandra’s dead body “but for the fact of his teeth, which were weak at their roots, being fastened in with golden wire.”¹ As a result of this victory, the Moslem historians naively assure us that “the impurities of idolatry were purged by the water of the sword from that land, and the country of Hind was freed from vice and superstition.”² Immense booty was obtained “such as the eye of the beholder would be weary to look at,” including one (according to Firishta) three hundred elephants.