The “lord and receptacle of victory exclaimed: War is a deception.”
Rauzat-us-Safa, vol. II, part II, p. 456. The Rauzat-us-Safa by Muhammad b. Khavendshah b. Mahmud, popularly known as Mirkhond. A fifteenth-century Persian biography which takes into account many preceding traditions. English translation under the title The Garden of Purity, trans. E. Tehatsek. London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1893. Now being reprinted by Idarahi Adbiyati Delhi, Delhi-6, India. also in [1]
