C. ii.; Ibn Bat. II. 223; N. and
E. XIV. 510; Cochin China, etc., London, 1633, ed. 3; Armandi, Hist.
Militaire des Elephants, 259 seqq. 442.)
[1] Sir A. Phayre thinks this may have been Vikrampur, for some
time the capital of Eastern Bengal before the Mahomedan conquest.
Vikrampur was some miles east of Dacca, and the dynasty in question
was that called Vaidya. (See Lassen, III. 749.)
Patteik-Kara is apparently an attempt to represent some Hindi
name such as Patthargarh, "The Stone-Fort."
CHAPTER LII.
OF THE BATTLE THAT WAS FOUGHT BY THE GREAT KAAN'S HOST AND HIS SENESCHAL,
AGAINST THE KING OF MIEN.
And when the Captain of the Tartar host had certain news that the king
aforesaid was coming against him with so great a force, he waxed uneasy,
seeing that he had with him but 12,000 horsemen. Natheless he was a most
valiant and able soldier, of great experience in arms and an excellent
Captain; and his name was NESCRADIN.[NOTE 1] His troops too were very
good, and he gave them very particular orders and cautions how to act, and
took every measure for his own defence and that of his army. And why
should I make a long story of it? The whole force of the Tartars,
consisting of 12,000 well-mounted horsemen, advanced to receive the enemy
in the Plain of Vochan, and there they waited to give them battle. And
this they did through the good judgment of the excellent Captain who led
them; for hard by that plain was a great wood, thick with trees.
