[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) › 225.5.8 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 225.5.8 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 225.5.8 - **Language:** English ### [225.5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.225.5.8) Having bestowed honorary dresses on the envoys, he dismissed them to their respective courts, and himself arrived at the town of Khuleefabad, where a messenger met him, conveying a dress from the Ameer-ool-Mominin Moosteid Billa Yoosoof, the son of Mahomed Abassy, the Caliph of Egypt, as a token of his friendship and respect, also a letter styling him Defender of the Faithful. Sooltan Mahmood, in return, presented the bearer with several fine horses and other valuable articles. On reaching the Dowlutabad frontier, news arrived that the King of Guzerat was on full march in his rear, in order to assist the King of the Deccan; on which Sooltan Mahmood taking the route of Malconda on his return home, plundered that district, and marching through Gondwara arrived at Mando. The best authenticated history I have seen, however, thus records these events: — “In the year 870, Nizam-ool-Moolk Toork being ordered to attack Kehrla, he reduced that place by storm” (a detailed account of which has been already given in the history of the Kings of the Bahmuny dynasty of the Deccan); “and on the 1st of Rubbee-ool-Awul, of the year 871, the King of Malwa despatched Mukbool Khan to the attack of Elichpoor, and having occupied that town, he gave it up to be sacked. During the night the governor of the town, collecting one thousand five hundred "cavalry and all the infantry in the place, resolved on attacking Mukbool Khan; - [Previous: 225.5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.225.5.7) - [Next: 225.5.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.225.5.9) - [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.225.5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.225.5.8) · Pramāṇa