Muntakhab al-tawarikh 44.2.3

44.2.3

The Sultan gave to Nagarkot the name of Muhammadabad after the deceased Sultan Muhammad, and when they brought the Sultan ice on that mountain fort he said, “when Sultan Muhammad who is now dead and whom I regarded as a god, arrived in this place they brought him a sharbat mixed with ice, but he had no inclination for that beverage because I was not with him.” Accordingly they made an iced sharbat with several elephant and camel loads of cane-sugar which was carried with Sultan Firuz, and he ordered them to read the whole of the Qur’an for the soul of Sultan Muhammad and distribute the sharbat among the entire army. Under these circumstances they informed the Sultan that from the time when Sultan Sikandar Zul Qarnayn arrived at this place the people of that city have preserved an image of Nushaba and keep it in a room, where they worship it. There are one thousand three hundred books of the Brahmans of olden time in that idol temple which is commonly known as Jawalamukhi, a flame of fire rises from it towards heaven and is not to be extinguished, No, not by thousands of mashks of water. The Sultan having summoned the Brahmans, ordered some of his translators to translate some of these books into Persian. Among these translators ‘Izzu-d-Dīn Khālid Khānī, who was one of the poets and mutribs of the time of Fīrūz wrote in verse a translation of a book on the risings and settings of the seven planets, and their good and evil import, and of auguries and omens.