[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) › 75.3.3 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 75.3.3 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 75.3.3 - **Language:** English ### [75.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.75.3.3) After the war of Beejanuggur the King changed his conduct, and gave himself wholly up to luxurious enjoyments. Transferring the management of his government to ministers, he collected a thousand of the most beautiful women he could procure; to accommodate whom he erected a magnificent palace, and laid out elegant gardens around it, on the banks of a piece of water. This palace he called the abode of bliss; and therein he spent most of his time in drinking ruby-coloured wines, and in pressing the lips of smooth-faced damsels, or listening to the melody of sweet-voiced musicians. During this intoxication of pleasure, he only appeared in the public audience hall once every four or five months; and the Deccany officers exercised the power of government with uncontrolled sway. At this time Meamun-Oolla Deccany formed a plan for reducing to subjection all the fortresses along the sea-coast. To affect this, the King deputed Mullik-oot-Toojar, with seven thousand Deccany infantry, and three thousand Arabian cavalry, besides his own division, to the westward. Mullik-oot-Toojar, fixing upon Chakun as his seat of government, secured the fort near the city of Joonere, from whence he sent detachments, at different times, into Concan, and reduced several rajas to subjection. At length he moved to that country in person, and laid siege to a fort the Raja of which was named Sirka, whom he speedily obliged to surrender, and to deliver himself and family into his hands. - [Previous: 75.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.75.3.2) - [Next: 75.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.75.3.4) - [Up: 75.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.75.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.75.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.75.3.3) · Pramāṇa