“The sack was general during the whole day, and continued throughout the following day, Saturday, the seventeenth, the spoils being so great that each man secured fifty to a hundred prisoners, men, women, and children, while no soldier took less than twenty. There was likewise an immense booty in rubies, diamonds, garnets, pearls, and other gems; jewels of gold and silver money of the celebrated Alai coinage; vessels of gold and silver; and brocade and silks of great value. Gold and silver ornaments of Hindu women were obtained in such quantities as to exceed all accounts. Excepting the quarter of the Sayyids, the scholars, and the other Mussalmans, the whole city was sacked. The pen of fate had written down this destiny for the people of this city, and although I was desirous of sparing them, I could not succeed, for it was the will of God that this calamity should befall the city”.
