Shri Shiv Chatrapati Caritr 1.15.3

1.15.3

Then Rayrigad that belonged to the Adilsahi was captured. The Raje himself went and found that the fort was very fine, the precipices on the four sides looked as if scraped perpendicular, (and were) [72] one and a half ganvs in height. During the rains grass did not grow on the cliff and (it looked as if "it were) one chiselled slab of stone. (So fine was it.) It is true that Daulatabad also was one of the finest forts in the world, but it was less in height. This fort was ten times as high as Daulatabad. The Raje was very pleased to find it so, and (he) said that, this fort should be made the seat of his throne. Resolving thus, he built houses, palaces, state rooms, buildings and a separate mansion for the eighteen departments, and seraglio for the queens, similarly separate quarters and bazar for the Sarkarkuns, separate quarters for Panchhazaris, and dwelling houses for men of note, (different) stables for elephants and horses and camels, and garages for palanquins and chariots, and cowsheds, in that fort with chunam plaster and hewn stones.