Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 97.2.5

97.2.5

Beeby Zeenut, after the murder of her husband and child, making her escape to Joonere, sought protection with her brother, who marched in the year 899 against Mullik Ashruf in Dowlutabad. His army, however, had only reached Bagh Nizam, when he was met by letters from court, sent by Kasim Bereed, soliciting his aid against Yoosoof Adil Khan, who was now besieging Bidur; after which Kasim Bereed promised to assist him in reducing Dowlutabad. Ahmud Nizam Shah, abandoning his designs against Dowlutabad for the present, proceeded to Bidur, which he relieved in the manner related in the history of Yoosoof Adil Shah, and then marched to Dowlutabad; to which fort he laid siege for two months without success, and returned towards Joonere. On his arrival at the town of Bingar, a village situated equidistant between Joonere and Dowlutabad, he resolved to found the capital of his from whence he determined to detach an army every year, to lay waste the country about Dowlutabad till he reduced it. With this view, in the year 900, he laid the foundation of a city in the vicinity of the Bagh Nizam, upon the bank of the Sena river, to which he gave the name of Ahmudnuggur. So great exertions were made in erecting buildings by the King and his dependents, that in the short space of two years the new city rivalled Bagdad and Cairo in splendour;