[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) › 75.2.7 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 75.2.7 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 75.2.7 - **Language:** English ### [75.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.75.2.7) and the infidels, admiring their valour, took them both prisoners without injury, and carried them before Dew Ray, who caused them to be kept in confinement. Alla-ood-Deen Shah, upon this, wrote to him, that he valued the lives of the two chiefs equal to that of two hundred thousand common men, therefore, as it was a rule with the princes of his family to slay a hundred thousand Hindoos in revenge for the death of a single Mussulman, he swore, should Dew Ray take away the lives of the two captive officers, he would revenge the death of each by the slaughter of a hundred thousand Hindoos. - [Previous: 75.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.75.2.6) - [Next: 75.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.75.2.8) - [Up: 75.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.75.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.75.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.75.2.7) · Pramāṇa