The painted illustration of the moving of the Ashoka Pillar at Topra is found in

The painted illustration depicting the transportation of the Ashoka Pillar from Topra to Delhi is found in the Sirat-i-Firuz Shahi. While the Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi by Shams-i-Siraj Afif provides a detailed and graphic textual description of the pillar being uprooted and loaded onto a 42-wheeled carriage, it is the Sirat-i-Firuz Shahi (dated to approximately 1593-94 in some copies) that contains the actual visual illustrations of this colossal undertaking. These illustrations, preserved in manuscripts like the one at the Khuda Bakhsh Library in Patna, depict the ingenious methods used by Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq's engineers to move the monolithic column to his new capital, Firuzabad. The Sirat-i-Firuz Shahi thus serves as a unique iconographic record of medieval Indian engineering and the Sultan's fascination with ancient monuments.