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81. The dimensions of these inscribed pillars are as follows : — 



Ft. In. Ft. In. 



( Upper member, with brackets, 10 



■P (Lower ditto, ... 6 



. 1 4 



Shaft, 4 11| 



c Upper portion, ornamented,... 1 2 J 



( LoWer ditto, plain, .,.».„ 9 



1 11* 



Total height, 8 



82. The only other Hindu remains are the two Forts of Ldlhot 

 a-nd Mai Pitliora, which together formed the old Dilli of the Musal* 

 mans, after the building of the new Fort of Siri by Ala-uddin Khilji. 

 Of these two, the older Fort of Ldlhot has hitherto remained unknown, 

 being always described by the Musalmans as a part of the Fort of B,ai 

 Pithora. It is called -Siri by Lieutenant Burgess, who made a survey 

 of the ruins of Dilli in 1849-50, and the same name is given to it by 

 Messrs. Cope and Lewis in their interesting account of Firuzabad, 

 published in the Journal of the Archaeological Society of Delhi for 

 1850. The reasons which induce me to identify this Fort with the 

 Ldllcot of Anang Pal have already been given when speaking of the 

 refounding of Dilli^ and the reasons which compel me to reject its 

 identification with Siri wull be detailed when I come to speak of that 

 place. 



83. The Fort of Ldlhot \ which was built by Anang Pal in A. D» 

 1060, is of an irregular rounded oblong form, 2J miles in circumference. 

 Its walls are as lofty and as massive as those of Tughlahahad, although 

 the blocks of stone are not so colossal. By different measurements 

 I found the ramparts to be from 28 to 30 feet in thickness, of which 

 the parapet is just one-half. The same thickness of parapet is also 

 derived from the measurement given by Ibn Batuta in A. D. 1340 

 who says that the walls were eleven cubits thick. Accepting this 

 measure as the same that was in use in Firuz Shah's time, namely, of 

 16 inches, as derived from the length of Firuz Shah's pillar, the thick- 

 ness of the walls of old Dilli was 14f feet. These massive ramparts 

 have a general height of 60 feet above the bottom of the ditch, which 



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