Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 2.8

2.8

From thence the King marched towards the mountains of Nagrakote, where he was overtaken by a storm of hail and snow; they brought him some ice. The King said, At the time my late liege-lord Sultan Muhammad Tughlak Shah arrived here, and they brought him iced sherbet for his beverage, he refused to take it, because I was not with him to partake of it. He then gave orders that some elephant and camel-loads of sugar, which were in camp, should be converted into sherbet and iced, and distributed throughout the whole army, in memory of Sultan Muhammad Tughlak Shah. The Raja of Nagrakote, after sustaining some loss, submitted, but was restored to his dominions. The name of Nagrakote was, on this occasion, changed to that of Mahomedabad, in honour of the late King. The people of Nagrakote told Feroze, that the idol which the Hindoos worshipped in the temple of Nagrakote was the image of Nowshaba, the wife of Alexander the Great, and that that conqueror had left the idol with them, which the Brahmins had made at the time that conqueror was in these parts, and placed within their temple, and that now that image was the idol of the people of this country. The name by which it was then known was Jwalamooky. In this temple was a fine library of Hindee books, consisting of 1300 volumes.