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old fort which now surrounds the Kutb Minar is in all probability the 

 very Lalkot that was built by Anang Pal. But there are also three 

 other points in favour of this identification, viz., 1st, that all the 27 

 temples destroyed by the Musalmans would appear to have stood inside 

 the walls of Lalkot ; 2nd, that one of these 27 temples was almos* 5 

 certainly built in the reign of Anang Pal ; and 3rd, that the Fort of 

 Eai Pithora is only an extension of the older fort, which now surrounds 

 the Kutb Minar. Por these reasons I believe that this massive old 

 fort which is still in very good order in many places, is the identical 

 Lalkot of Anang Pal. The circuit of its walls, according to my survey, 

 is 2 J miles. 



33. To this Anang Pal I attribute the construction of a very deep 

 tank situated one quarter of a mile to the north-west of the Kutb 

 Minar, and which is still called Anang TaL This tank is 169 feet long 

 from north to south, and 152 feet broad from east to west, with a 

 depth of 40 feet. It is now quite dry, but Syad Ahmad quotes a 

 statement that, in the time of Sultan Ala-uddin Khilji (A. D. 1296 — 

 1316,) the water used for the mortar of the great unfinished Minar 

 was brought from this tank. I refer also to this Anang Pal the 

 founding of a village in the Balamgarh District, which is still called 

 Anehpur. According to Syad Ahmad, the popular date of this work 

 is S. 733, or A. D. 676 ; and he attributes it to Anang Pal 1st, the 

 founder of the dynasty. But I think it more probable that the date 

 refers to the Balabhi era of A. D. 319, which will place the building 

 of the village in 733 + 318 — A. D. 1051, in which year Anang Pal 

 2nd, the true founder of Dilii, succeeded to the throne. Another work 

 of the same time is the Suraj Kund, a fine deep tank near Anekpur, 

 the building of which is attributed to Suraj Pal, one of Anang Pal's 

 sons, in S. 743, which, referred to the Balabhi era, is equivalent to 

 A, D. 1061, a date which corresponds most exactly with those which 

 we have already obtained. 



34. To Anang Pal I attribute also the erection of at least one of 

 the 27 temples which once stood around the Iron Pillar. Many of 

 the pillars and beams of this temple have been made use of by the 

 Musalmans in the construction of the south-east corner of the colonnade 

 of the Great Mosque. Most of them are inscribed with mason's marks 

 as will be noticed at length when I come to speak of the ruins in detail ; 

 and one of them bears the date of 1124, which, referred to the era of 



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