Vol. VII, No. 4.] Description of Delhi. 103 
[N.S.] 
gical Reports; but, though both Mr. Maclagan and myself 
examined independently every reference to Delhi in Mr. V. A. 
Smith’s General Index to Vols. I—X XIII. we failed to discover 
it. 
We were more successful in another direction. In Descrip- 
Imprimerie Impériale, 1861, pt. I, p. 26,' we have a much clearer 
reference to the tunnels with sufficient proof that even as late 
as 1852 the tradition concerning them was not yet extinct. 
**(Ch.] XIII. Kuschak of Firoz Schah, or Kotila of Firoz 
chah 
In the year 755 of the hegira (1354 A.D.), when it was 
Firoz Schah’s turn to reign, he had this castle (kuschak) erected 
on the border of the river,* on the confines of the place called 
Kddin,* and near to {attenant a) this kuschak, he built a town. 
In this palace, they had made three subterranean passages 
(conduits), so as to be able to ride out that way with the 
women of the palace (afin de pouvoir sortir par la sur des mon- 
tures avec les femmes du palais). There was a passage of three 
jarib,> on the side of the river, another near the belvedere,° 
two cosses long, and a third on the side of Old Dehli, five 
cosses in length. Now, it is evident that by Old Dehli we 
must understand the castle and town of Raja Pithaura, for 
the third passage is in that place, and very old people say ‘that 
he went as far as a marvellous place and a special basin 
[tank.]’’7 
from Journal Asiatique, 5° Série, Vol. XV (1860), 
Vol - XVI (1860), pp. 190—254; 392—451; 521—543; Vol. 
Raat eer " pp.7 P. Thompson, Divisional J udge, Delhi, 
does not know of a eit ae 785 2. He writes to Mr. E. D. Maclagan : 
*¢ our eiiionss, of Sayyid a an’s Asaru-s-sanadid ; 
the Ist ed., which came out in 1847; a Newal Kishor ed., of which 
1904 ed. differs from that of 1847, it reproduces with verbal alterations 
oy the 3 of 1854 
21 next four references belong to the original here quoted.] 
he hg wg Pirisehta (Cf. Exxior, Hist. of India, vi, 225.} 
‘arikh-< Piro Schaéhi and Shame-i Siraj “Atif. (Cf. ExxioT, Hist. 
of India, III, I VL 
yt Sine: (I note that there is nothing corresponding to this 
aailide "s m Delhi in Gladwin’s translation of the din Akbari, Vol. I, 
pp- ee 105. ] 
of Indie terms.) 
6 The Kiishk-i Shdede, as will be seen further. 
1 The special basin of which there is question here must be the Hauz 
*Alai or Hanz-i Khdss (special basin) described by Ahmad Khan, Pt. IT, 
$e + 1 ; eG 
g (Cf. Exuiot, Glossary 
