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walled enclosure surrounding his own tomb, and formings at the same 

 time, a place sufficiently large as an asylum for debtors and criminals. 



3. The " seven forts" of old Delhi, of which remains still exist, 

 are, according to my view, the following : — 



1. — Ldlkot, built by Anang Pal about A. D. 1052. 



2. — Kila Eai Pithora, built by Eai Pithora about A. D. 1180. 



3. — Siri or Kila-Alai, built by Ala-uddin in A. D. 1304. 



4i.—Tughlalcabad, built by Tughlak Shah in A. D. 1321. 



5. — Citadel of Tughlakabad, ditto ditto. 



6. — Adilabad, built by Muhammad Tughlak about A. D. 1325. 



7. — Jahdn-pandh, ditto ditto. 

 In this list there is no mention of Indraprastha, because this celebrat- 

 ed Capital of the Pandus is always described as being situated on the 

 bank of the Jumna, and because the present fort of Indrpat no doubt 

 represents some portion of the actual site, as well as the name of the 

 famous city of Yudhishthira. Indraprastha and Delhi were therefore 

 two different cities^ situated about 5 miles apart ; the former on the 

 bank of the Jumna above Humayun's tomb, and the latter on a rocky 

 hill to the south-west, surrounding the well known Iron Pillar. At 

 the time of the Muhammadan conquest, the Hindu city of Dilli was 

 confined to the two forts of Ldlkot and Eai 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 Musalman fort of 

 Siri and the fortified suburbs of Jahdn-pandh. Sharf-uddin, the his- 

 torian of Timur, restricts the name of old Delhi to the two Hindu 

 forts, and describes the cities of Siri and Jahdn-pandh separately. 

 Ferishta also does the same in his account of the later kings of the 

 Tughlak dynasty. But after Hum&yun had rebuilt Indrpat, under 

 the name of Din-pandh, and after Shir Shah had founded his fort of 

 Kila- Shir- Shah on the site of Firuzabad and Indraprastha, the com- 

 mon people began to use the names of old Delhi and new Delhi the 



former being confined to the cluster of cities about the Hindu Dilli, 

 while the latter was applied to those situated on the Jumna, on the 

 site of the ancient Indraprastha. 



4. Indraprastha or Indrpat.— At the time of the Mahdbhdrata, 

 or " Great War" between the Pandus and Kurus, this was one of the 





