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 162 .ALA- AD -DIN'S CONQUESTS IN THE DECCAN Birdhul on Thursday, the seventeenth of Zu-1-ka'da, and set up at Kham, and five days later the army arrived at the city of Mathra (Madura, in Southern India), the dwelling-place of the brother of the Raja Sundar Pandya. They found the city empty, for the raja had fled with his queens, but he had left two or THE TEMPLE AT MADURA. three elephants in the temple of Jagannath. The ele- phants were captured and the temple was burned. When Malik Kafur came to take a muster of his captured elephants, they extended over a length of three parasangs and amounted to 512, besides five thou- sand Arabian and Syrian horses, and five hundred mans of jewels of every description diamonds, pearls, emer- alds, and rubies.