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at Gwalior, names him Bilcm Be, and a second manuscript, received 

 from Bikaner, calls him Bilcm Beo, or Anang Bdl ; but Abul Fazl, 

 Colonel Tod, and Syad Ahmad call him simply Anang Pal ; and he is 

 so named in two inscriptions which are found on the Iron Pillar. 

 The date of Anang Pal, the founder of the Tomar dynasty, is variously 

 given by the different authorities ; but even the most discrepant of 

 these dates, when carefully examined, will be found to agree within a 

 few years of the others. The different dates given are as follows : — 



19. 1st. — The Gwalior manuscript of Khar g Bai. — This date has al- 

 ready been referred to. Kharg Eai states that Dilli was deserted for 792 

 years after Vikramaditya, when it was re-founded by Bilan-De Tomar. 

 This gives the year A. D. 736 as before noted. Colonel Tod refers to 

 the same tradition when he states that Delhi lay waste for eight cen- 

 turies. # But I am satisfied that he had the well known number of 

 792 recorded in his notes, for, in the very same page in which he makes 

 the above statement, he gives the date of the re-building of Dilli by 

 Anang Pal as Samvat 848, which, by using his erroneous difference 

 of 56 years, instead of 57, is equivalent to A. D. 792. But in another 

 part of his work, Colonel Tod states that he possessed the original 

 Hindu manuscript which Abul Fazl had used, and that the date of 

 the re-Wilding of Dilli by Anang Pal was Samvat 829 instead of S. 

 429. I strongly suspect that Colonel Tod has made a mistake in this 

 last statement, for I found, on examining the bard Muk-ji's manu- 

 script, then in the possession of his sons, that S. 821 is the date 

 assigned to the overthrow of the Tomaras, and not to their rise. Prom 

 these different statements I feel assured that he must have found the 

 number 792 recorded in his notes without any explanation, and that he 

 erroneously adopted it as the date of the re-founding of Dilli. 



20. 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 Tears. The 

 former period has been adopted by Syad Ahmad, as I think, judiciously, 

 because of the increased chances of error in the detail of twenty reigns. 

 On the Iron Pillar this date is given as S. 419, and the fall of the 

 dynasty is assigned to S. 648, which is most probably an error of the 

 engraver for S. 846. The difference between these dates is 427 years. 



# Hajastlian, I. 87. 



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