A painted illustration showing the moving of the Ashokan pillar from Topra to Delhi is found in the:

The "Sirat-i-Firuz Shahi", a 14th-century Persian text about the reign of Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq, contains an illustrated account of how the Ashokan pillar was moved from Topra to Delhi.

About the moving of the pillar:

• Firoz Shah Tughlaq, the Sultan of Delhi (1351-1388), was interested in ancient monuments.
• In 1356, he had an Ashokan pillar brought from Topra (in the present-day Yamunanagar district of Haryana) to Delhi.
• The pillar was carefully wrapped in cotton and reeds to protect it, and was lowered onto a large carriage with 42 wheels.
• Thousands of men pulled the carriage with ropes to the Yamuna river.
• It was then carried on large boats down the river to Delhi.
• It was installed on top of a three-storeyed building in his new city, Firozabad, now known as Feroz Shah Kotla.
• The pillar is still there, and is called the "Delhi-Topra pillar".
• It is the only Ashokan pillar that contains all seven Pillar Edicts.
• At that time, nobody could read the Brahmi inscription on it; Firoz Shah's scholars could not decipher it.

The second pillar:

Firoz Shah also moved another Ashokan pillar from Meerut to Delhi, and installed it on the Delhi Ridge, near his hunting palace (Kushk-i-Shikar); it is called the "Delhi-Meerut pillar".

About the Sirat-i-Firuz Shahi:

• It is a biography of Firoz Shah Tughlaq, written by an anonymous author in 1370.
• It describes his administration, buildings, hunting, and other activities.

Other texts of the Delhi Sultanate:

• "Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi": a history (one version by Shams-i-Siraj Afif).
• "Tabaqat-i-Nasiri": an earlier history of the Sultanate.
• "Futuh-us-Salatin": a history by Isami.
• "Futuhat-i-Firuz Shahi": Firoz Shah's own account of his achievements.

Why not the other options?

• ✗Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi and Tabaqat-i-Nasiri are general histories.
• ✗Futuh-us-Salatin is by Isami.