Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 68.1.6

68.1.6

With this view Krishn Ray, abandoning Beejanuggur to the charge of his ministers, withdrew with his army to the forests on the south of the city. Mujahid Shah, having heard much of the beauty of the city, advanced to Beejanuggur; but conceiving it imprudent to besiege it at present, he moved in pursuit of the enemy. Krishn Ray fled through the woods and hills towards Seeta Bund Rameswur followed by the King, who cut passages for his cavalry through forests before inaccessible. In this manner, the Ray fled from place to place for six months, but never dared to appear in the open plain. In vain did the favourites of the King represent the pursuit as fruitless, and destructive to the troops. At last his good fortune prevailed; the health of Krishn Ray and his family became affected by the pestilential air of the woods, and they were warned by the physicians to quit them. He had entertained hopes that the King would have been taken ill, from the unwholesome climate, and would have been obliged to retreat, but the evil fell on himself. Driven by necessity, therefore, Krishn Ray retired by secret paths to his capital of Beejanuggur; whither he was pursued by an army despatched after him; while the King, accompanied by the Ameer-ool-Omra, Bahadur Khan, and five thousand men, went to view Seeta Bund Rameswur. Mujahid Shah, on this occasion, repaired a mosque which had been built by the officers of Alla-ood-Deen Khiljy.