Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal 1941 (Concluding Number)

Mars whose red face is due to the blood of the nobles of the state has drawn the arrow of meanness and the dart of insolence from the quiver of that zone against the Orion-girdled Khan who was like Leo in the zone of the watery house of bloodshed and destruction and the proofs of mischiefs and disorders were evident and the command and significance of the verse When Fate comes the plain becom [...] The lances of the Minks of the state pierced the limbs of the enemy in such a way that each one of them began to spurt blood and the plumes of the arrows of the Turks who were in attendance on the prince became so interlaced in the persons of the Tatars that no space was left. [...] The uproar of the victors and the clamour of the lovers of battle had deafened the ears of the earth and the sky. [...] The fiery tongues which sprung up from the heads of the lances and the tongues of the swords did not err a single letter in executing the order of the angel of Death all uttered the verse " A day when man will flee from his brother ".1 The surface of the earth was full of blood like old men who had lost their sons and the face of the sky was covered with dust like the heads of sons who had los [...] And the bird of his soul had flown from the cage of the body towards the garden of paradise " Verily we belong to God and unto Him do we return ".2 `At that moment the prop of the religion of Islam broke like the broken heart of an orphan and the rampart of the faith of Islam had fallen low like the tomb of the poor.