Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 2.11

2.11

As he could gain no information of Kurgoo himself, who remained concealed amongst the ravines and precipices of the hillcountry of Kamaun, eluding pursuit like so much quicksilver, and no one knew whether he was dead or alive, and as the rainy season was approaching, the standards resplendent with victories returned to the camp whence they set out. The King appointed one Mullik Dawood, an Affghan, whom he exalted to a very high rank, with a body of troops, to remain at Sumbhul, with orders to invade the country of Kutehr every year, to commit every kind of ravage and devastation, and not to allow it to be inhabited until the murderer was given up. The King himself also, under pretence of hunting, marched annually in that direction until the year 787, to see that his orders were fulfilled, and to do what Malik Daud had left undone; and for six years not an inhabitant was to be seen in that district, nor was a single jarib of the land cultivated. Not a soul slept at night in his hut, and several thousands of Hindus were slaughtered to avenge the death of those three Saiyids. In the above-mentioned year he built an exceedingly strong fortress in Bisauli, seven coss from Badaun, and called it Firozpur; but the common people, jocose amid all the oppression they had suffered, called it Akhirinpur (the last city);