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Beport of the Archaeological Survey. 





accession in A. D. 1110 or 1115, and that of his grandfather, Chandra 

 Deva, the founder of the dynasty, in A. D. 1050. Now this is the 

 very date, as we learn from other sources, at which Anang Pal 2nd, 

 the successor of Kumara Fala, established himself at Dilli, and built 

 the Fort of Ldlhot. On the Iron Pillar there is a short inscription 

 in three lines, which appears to be a contemporary record of Anang 

 Pal himself, as the characters are similar to those of the mason's 

 marks on the pillars of the colonnade of the Great Mosque, but are 

 quite different from those of the two modern Nagari inscriptions, 

 which are close beside it. The following are the words of this short 

 record : — " Samvat Dihali 1109 Ang Pal bahi" which may be trans- 

 lated thus: — "In Samvat 1109 (equal to A. D. 1052) Ang (or 

 " Anang) Pal peopled Dilli" This statement is borne out by the 

 testimony of the Kumaon and G-arhwal manuscripts, in which, opposite 

 the name of Anek Pal, I find recorded that in Samvat 1117, or A. D. 

 1060, on the 10th of Mdrgasiras Sudi "he built the Fort of Dilli 

 and called it " Ldlhot" (Dili ha hot hardy a, Ldlhot hahdya). This 

 name was still in use during the reign of the first Musalman king, 

 Kutbuddin Aibeg, as I find in the manuscripts of Muh-ji, the bard 

 of the Khichi Chohans, that Kutbuddin, soon after his accession, 

 issued seven orders to the Hindu Chiefs, of which the fifth is " Ldlhot 

 tai nagdro Mjto a" or "kettle-drums are not to be beaten in 

 Lalkot." This is a rule which is still observed, as none but the royal 

 drums are beaten where the sovereign is present, Kutbuddin must 

 therefore have taken up his residence in Lalkot, or the fortified city 

 of Anang Pal. 



32. Now this date, recorded on the Iron Pillar, agrees so exactly 

 with the period of the Eahtor conquest of Kanoj, that I think we 

 may infer, with considerable probability, that the rebuilding of Dilli 

 by Anang Pal was owing to the loss of the territory of Kanoj along 

 with its new Capital of Pari in Oudh. The accession of Anang Pal 

 2nd, according to the genealogical lists, took place in A. D. 1051, 

 and in 1052 we find a record of him on the Iron Pillar at Dilli. If, 

 then, we suppose that he commenced rebuilding at once, there is every 

 probability in favour of the accuracy of the statement that he finished 

 the Ldlhot, or " Eed Fort," of Dilli in A. D. 1060. If the site of 

 the Eed Fort may be fixed by the position of the Anang Tdl, as well 

 as by that of the Iron Pillar which records the work, then the grand 



