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214 TIMUK'S ACCOUNT OF HIS INVASION his head to the ground, made his obeisance, and uttered a cry. At the direction of their drivers they picked up any object from the ground with their trunks and placed it in their drivers' hands, or put it into their mouths and kept it. When I saw these mighty animals, so well trained and so obedient to weak man, I was greatly astonished, and I ordered that they should be sent to Turan and Iran, to Ears and Azur and Rum (Byzantium), so that the princes and nobles through- out my dominions might behold these animals. Ac- cordingly I sent five to Samarkand, two to Tabriz, one to Shiraz, five to Herat, one to Sharwan, and one to Azarbaijan. When Friday came, I sent Maulana Nasir-ad-din Omar, together with certain other holy and learned men who accompanied my camp, to the Jami* Mas j id, with directions to say the prayers for the Sabbath, and to recite the official prayer of my reign in the metrop- olis of Delhi. This petition was accordingly repeated in my name in the pulpits of the mosques of the city of Delhi, and I rewarded the preachers with costly robes and presents. ,When the preparations for holding a court in Delhi were completed, I gave orders for the princes, amirs, and other officers, as well as the Sayyids, scholars, shaikhs, and all the principal men of the city, to attend my court. When all had arrived, I entered and took my seat upon the throne. The Turkish and Arab mu- sicians and singers began to play and sing, and wine, sherbet, sweetmeats, and all kinds of bread and meat