soldiers. They set fire to the houses and reduced them to ashes, and they razed the
buildings and the fort to the ground….All these infidel Hindus were slain, their women
and children, and their property and goods became the spoil of the victors. I proclaimed
throughout the camp that every man who had infidel prisoners
should put them to
death, and whoever neglected to do so should himself be executed and his property
given to the informer. When this order became known to the ghazis of Islam, they
drew their swords and put their prisoners to death.
One
hundred thousand infidels, impious idolaters, were on that day slain. Maulana
Nasiruddin Umar, a counselor and man of learning, who, in all his life, had never killed
a sparrow, now,
in execution of my order, slew with his sword fifteen idolatrous
Hindus, who were his captives….on the great day of battle these 100,000 prisoners
could not be left with the baggage, and that it would be entirely opposed to the rules
of war to set these idolaters and enemies of Islam at liberty…no other course remained
but that of making them all food for the sword.
As per Malfuzat-i-Timuri, Timur targeted Hindus. In his own words, «Excepting the
quarter of the saiyids, the 'ulama and the other Musalmans, the whole city was sacked».
In his descriptions of the Loni massacre he wrote,»..Next day I gave orders that the
Musalman prisoners should be separated and saved.»
During the ransacking of Delhi, almost all inhabitants not killed were captured and
enslaved.
Timur
left Delhi in approximately January 1399. In April he had returned to his own
capital beyond the Oxus. Immense quantities of spoils were taken from India.
According
to Ruy Gonzбles de Clavijo, 90 captured elephants were employed merely
to carry precious stones looted from his conquest, so as to erect a mosque at Samarkand
- what historians today believe is the enormous Bibi-Khanym Mosque. Ironically, the
mosque was constructed too quickly and suffered greatly from disrepair within a few
decades of its construction.