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southern suburbs of Firozpur and was buried there some time 
after 1075 H. (1669 A.D.). 1071 H., an unnamed Shaikh 
was buried in the court of Kadam Rast] mosque; near which 
Fath Khan, son of Diller Khan, a general sent against the 
prince by Aurangzeb, is said to have been buried. But it 
was only the last flickering gleam of a dying flame; and when 
William Hedges, the agent of the English East India Co. in 
Bengal, visited it on 16th May, 1683, he found the city had 
become a wilderness of ruins. ! 
LAKHAN-OR. 
Lakhan-or. 
detailed notice. One such town is Lakhan-or. In 602 H. 
(1205-6 A.D.) Muhammad-i Bakht-yar despatched Muhammad-i 
Sheran and his brother with a portion of his forces towards 
Lakhan-or and Jajnagar. The western side of Lakhanawati was 
called Ral, and the city of Lakhan-or lay on that side. From 
Lakhanawati to the gate of the city of Lakhan-or on one side, 
and as far as Diw-kot, on the other side, Sultan Ghiyasi-d-din 
*Iwaz had an embankment constructed extending about ten 
days’ journey, for this reason, that in the rainy season the 
whole of that tract becomes inundated, and that route was 
filled with mud-swamps and morass: and if it were not for 
these dykes, it would have been impossible for people to carry 
out their intentions or reach various structures and inhabited 
nawati-Lakhan-or (one I-bak, styled Aor Khan), a battle took. 
place in the vicinity of Lakhanawati, in which Aor Khan was 
killed and both sides of the country of Lakhaniwati came into 
the possession of Malik Tughril. In 642 H. the infidel army of 
killing its feudatory Fakhr-ul-Mulk Karim-ud-din Laghri with 
a number of Musalmans, and then appeared before the gate of 
ree on Tuesday, the 13th Shawwal (14th March, 
_ Jajnagar coming beyond their frontier, first took Lakhan-or, 
Its identification: sega fortified town with a feudatory of 
1 Diary of William Hedges, Yule, vol. i, ] 
: of Willian 3 ; ~ ky Ps OG. 
* Tabakat-i Nagiri, transl., pp. 573, 585, 586, 736-7, 739. 
