Firishtah here pays a tribute to the interest felt by the inhabitants
of this part of India in the new city, then only forty years old,
but evidently growing in grandeur year by year.

"Mujahid Shaw, having heard great praises of the beauty of the city,
advanced to Beejanuggur; but thinking it too strong to besiege at
present, he moved in pursuit of the enemy in the field."

Now follows a passage on which it is difficult to place full reliance,
but which only echoes common tradition. It runs to the effect that,
on the advance of the Sultan, the Raya

"fled through the woods and hills towards Seet Bunder Ramessar
followed by the sultan, who cut passages for his cavalry; through
forests before inaccessible. In this manner the roy fled from place to
place for six months, but never dared to appear without the woods. It
was in vain that the favourites of the sultan represented the pursuit
as fruitless and destructive to the troops. He would not desist. At
last his good fortune prevailed. The health of Kishen Roy and his
family became affected by the noxious air of the woods, and they
were warned to quit them by the physicians.... Driven by necessity,
he retired by secret paths to his capital of Beejanuggur. The sultan
despatched an army after him, while he himself, with the ameer al
amra Bahadur Khan and five thousand men, went to amuse himself with
the sight of Seet Bunda Ramessar.

"The sultan at this place repaired a mosque which had been built
by the officers of Sultan Alla ad Dien Khiljee. He broke down many
temples of the idolaters, and laid waste their country after which
he hastened with all expedition to Beejanuggur."