[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) › 225.5.4 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 225.5.4 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 225.5.4 - **Language:** English ### [225.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.225.5.4) The Prince Fidwy Khan having offered up prayers for his success, and placed an officer of rank in the town of Boondy, rejoined his father at Mando. Sooltan Mahmood, in the year 863, again marched against the Rajpoots. On arriving at the town of D’har, he detached Gheias-ood-Deen to lay waste the country of the Kolies and Bheels. In this excursion the Prince penetrated to the hills of Koombulmere, and on his return, having given the King some description of that fortress, Sooltan Mahmood resolved to march thither. On the next day he moved for that purpose, destroying all the temples on the road. On his arrival at Koombulmere, having ascended a hill at some distance on the east face of the fort, he was of opinion that nothing but a close siege of several years could effect its reduction, and on the following day, marching towards Dongurpoor, he encamped on the borders of the lake. Sham Das, the Ray of Dongurpoor, fled to Kohtahna, from which place he sent as an offering two lacks of tunkas and twenty-one horses, and Sooltan Mahmood afterwards returned to Mando. In the month of Mohurrum, A. H. 866, having heard that a prince under age had succeeded to the throne of the Deccan, under the title of Sooltan Nizam Shah Bahmuny, and that the officers of the state refused to pay him proper respect, Sooltan Mahmood, at the instigation of Nizam-ool-Moolk Ghoory, marched for the purpose of subduing the Deccan. - [Previous: 225.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.225.5.3) - [Next: 225.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.225.5.5) - [Up: 225.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.225.5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.225.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.225.5.4) · Pramāṇa