تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 11.12.3

11.12.3

This fortress of Kālyūr stands on top of a lofty height, as if carved from the rock, with no mountain facing it. Inside it are water cisterns and about twenty wells, with walls around them joined to the fortress, on which mangonels and ballistas are set up. One climbs to the fortress by a wide road which the elephant and the horse can ascend. At the gate of the fortress is the figure of an elephant carved from stone, with the figure of an elephant-driver on it; when a person sees it from afar he does not doubt that it is a real elephant. Below the fortress is a fine city, built entirely of dressed white stone, its mosques and its houses alike, with no wood in it except the doors; so too the royal palace there, and the domes and audience halls.