Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Supplementary Number 1864

At the time of the Muhammadan conquest:the Hindu city of Dilli was confined to the two forts of Ldlkot and Rai Pithora ; but after Firuz Shah had moved the seat of Government to Firuzabad on the very site of the ancient Indraprastha the name of Dilli was sometimes applied to the whole of the old city including the Musalmain fort of Siri and thiC fortified suburbs of Jandn-pandb. [...] 2nd.—In the Ayin Akbari of Abul Fazl the date of Anang Pal is placed in Samvat 429 and the end of the Tomar dynasty in S. 848; thus limiting the rule of the Tomaras to 419 years while his detailed account of the lengths of reigns amounts to 437 years. [...] To Anang nu I attribute also the erection of at least one of the 27 temples which once stood around the ironPillar.)Maur of the pillars and beams of this temple 'have been made use of by the Musalmans in the construction of the south-east collier of the colonnade of the Great Mosque. [...] The work is divided into severarKhands or books which are generally known by the names of the subjects of which they treat ; thus the.1raissj viand gives the story of the forcible abduction of the not unwilling daughter of Jaya Chandra the ltahtor Raja of Kanoj ; while the Maboba A-hand relates the various fortunes of the successful war with.Parmdlik or.Paramdrdi Deva the Chandel Raja of [...] From the very exact agreement in the descriptions of the site of the village of Taopar with that of the city described by Hiven Thsang I feel quite satisfied that the original site of Firuz Shah's Pillar was somwhere in the immediate vicinity of the ancient Capital of Srughna.