Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 119.1.3

119.1.3

"Be it known to your Majesty, that it is now many years since the two courts of Beejapoor and Ahmudnuggur have been in a constant state of warfare, and that the balance of power between them was so equal, that although every year each of these sovereigns had been in the habit of making a campaign on the other's frontiers, yet no advantage accrued to either. It now appears that your Majesty (whose ancestors never interfered in these disputes) has "marched an army to turn the scale in favour of "Hoossein Nizam Shah, without having any cause "of enmity against Ibrahim Adil Shah of Beejapoor, who has accordingly sought our alliance. "As a friendship has long subsisted between our "court and your Majesty, we have thought fit to "lay these arguments before you, to induce you "to relinquish the offensive alliance which your "Majesty has formed, and by returning peaceably "to your capital, show a friendly disposition "towards both parties, who will afterwards conclude a peace, and put an end to this long protracted war." At this period letters were also received to the same purport from Ibrahim Adil Shah. Ibrahim Kootb Shah consented to meet Ramraj, and to mediate terms between the kings of Beejapoor and Ahmudnuggur; for the fulfilment of which the intermediate powers were respectively to be the guarantees.