Muntakhab al-lubab 140.3

140.3

Pap Rai now extended his operations, and plundered all the country from fifteen to twenty kos round. * * He was attacked by Pur Dil Khan, who, after mortally wounding Sarwa, was himself killed. * * Pap Rai increased his forces and materials of war, and now turned his efforts to the reduction of forts. Parties were frequently sent out against him, and he was besieged for two months in Shahpur, but without result. * * In Muharram, 1120, he attacked and plundered the flourishing town of Warangal, and killed from twelve to thirteen thousand men, women and children. * * He next attacked and was near upon capturing the fort of Bhungir, sixteen kos from Haidarabad, and he plundered the town and petta, * * carrying off two or three thousand men and women as prisoners. * * Afterwards he built another fort near Tarikanda, four kos from Shahpur, which he furnished with all requirements and a strong garrison. * *