[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) › 74.1.6 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 74.1.6 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 74.1.6 - **Language:** English ### [74.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.74.1.6) Dew Ray, perceiving he was undiscovered, took up the burden readily, hoping that he should be released when he reached the enemy's camp, or be able to effect his escape. They had not gone far, when an alarm spread through the camp of the Hindoos, that Ahmud Shah had crossed the river, and that the Ray was missing. The King entered the lines without opposition; and the soldiers who had taken Dew Ray, hoping to obtain more valuable plunder than sugar-cane, hastened to join their comrades, leaving him to shift for himself. Dew Ray fled, unnoticed, and about noon came up with some of his officers, by whom he was recognised, and received with great joy. His army now began to re-assume some kind of order; but as he regarded the late accident as an ill omen, he laid aside all idea of engaging in the field, and fled to Beejanuggur. Ahmud Shah, without waiting to besiege the Hindoo capital, overran the open country; and wherever he went put to death men, women, and children, without mercy, contrary to the compact made between his uncle and predecessor, Mahomed Shah, and the rays of Beejanuggur. Whenever the number of slain amounted to twenty thousand, he halted three days, and made a festival in celebration of the bloody event. He broke down, also, the idolatrous temples, and destroyed the colleges of the bramins. - [Previous: 74.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.74.1.5) - [Next: 74.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.74.1.7) - [Up: 74.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.74.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.74.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.74.1.6) · Pramāṇa