[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Tārīkh-i Firishta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta) › [History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs) › 119.7.6 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 119.7.6 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 119.7.6 - **Language:** English ### [119.7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.119.7.6) At this time news arrived of the death of Ibrahim Kootb Shah of Golconda, and of the accession of his son, Mahomed Koolly Kootb Shah, to the throne. When the late king, Ibrahim Kootb Shah, had settled the countries of the Hindoos on his southern frontier, and despatched his commander, Ameer Shah Meer, to oppose the armies of his Mahomedan neighbours, he vested the management of the affairs of his government in the hands of one Moorhary Row, a Marratta bramin, to whom was attached a body of ten thousand infantry, under the command of Mahomedan officers of rank, with permission to beat the nobut. Moorhary Row was in every respect the second person in the state, not even excepting the princes of the blood-royal. In the latter end of the late king's reign, this unprincipled infidel proceeded with a force towards a famous temple near Adohy, where he attacked the inhabitants, laid waste the country, and sacked it of its idols, made of gold and silver, and studded with rubies. He levied also four lacks of hoons (160,000l.) from the inhabitants. At sight of the idols the King was taken seriously ill, and never recovered. He died on Thursday the 21st of Rubbee-oos-Sany, A. H. 988, in the thirty-first year of his reign, and fifty-first of his age, and was buried in the Lungur gardens. Ibrahim Kootb Shah had thirty children, of whom six sons and thirteen daughters arrived at the age of maturity. - [Previous: 119.7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.119.7.5) - [Next: 119.7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.119.7.7) - [Up: 119.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.119.7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.119.7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.119.7.6) · Pramāṇa