Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.24.7

78.24.7

Husain Quli Khan, with the other Amirs of the Panjab such as Mirza Yusuf Khan, and Ja‘far Khan son of Qazaq Khan, and Fattu Masnadi ‘Ali &c., first took by assault Dahmeri, and Gwaliyar, and Kotlah an exceedingly lofty fortress, and reduced that district (P. 162). Then, leaving there a force to occupy the district, he passed over a very difficult pass with elephants, horses, camels, and his whole suit, and large cannon, and immense mortars, and laid siege to the fortress of Kangrah. I myself in the year nine hundred and ninety-eight, when I went to Nagarkot, had occasion to cross that pass, and it is scarcely an hyperbole to say that the foot of the ant in those rugged places would slip through fear. Then Bidhi Chand, son of Jai Chand, thinking that his father had died in prison, shut himself up in the fort. The temple of Nagarkot, which is outside the city, was taken at the very outset. It is a place whither lacs and lacs of men, or rather krors and krors of men, assemble at fixed periods, and bring ass-loads and ass-loads of gold and silver coins, and stuffs and merchandise and other precious things, store-fuls without number, as offerings. On this occasion many mountaineers became food for the flashing sword. And that golden umbrella, which was erected on the top of the cupola of the temple, they riddled with arrows, many of which may be seen hanging there to this day.