Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 42.23.2

42.23.2

All this was entered in the Imperial books for one Arib, fifteen corors and sixteen lacs of dams, It was on this occasion that a nobleman of the Court, then called Multekyt-qhan, and since known under the title of Mir-qhan, but whose original name was Mir-Abdol-kerim, and who had been present at all these transactions, complimented the Emperor with a relation of this siege, under the title of Conquest of Golconda: an elegant book, in which he pays the highest encomiums to that country, to the strength of that fortress, and to the beauty of Haider-abad, its Capital. And, in fact, the excellence of the air and water of that tract of ground, the beauty of its women, and the fertility and high product of its lands, are such as cannot be properly described. The Fortress of Golconda was originally enclosed with a mud wall by the ancestors of the Rajah Deö-rai, the last of its Hindoo Princes; and it was from that Prince that the Mussulman Princes of the House of Behemen took it. This family becoming extinct in process of time, in the person of Sultan-Mahmüd-Behemen, the kingdom was parcelled out by a variety of pretenders, amongst which one Soltan Cüly, alias Cütüb-el-Mulk, one of the Lords of the court, kept possession of the Fortress of Golconda. This Soltan-Cüly, from that time, became the Sovereign of that country, and built in stone the mud wall raised by Deö-rai.