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procured and put into a box, and deposited in the vault in which 

 Muhammad Tughlak is entombed." This strange device of placing 

 the vouchers in the tomb ready for the dead man's hand to pick up 

 at the last day, is as bold as it is original. It would be interesting to 

 read some of these documents, which are, in all probability, still quite 

 safe, as all the tombs appear to be in the most perfect order. 



135 5. Another work attributed to Muhammad Tughlak is the 

 small detached fort of Adilabad, or Muhammadabad, near the south- 

 east corner of Tughlakabad, with which it was once connected by a 

 double wall along the causeway which crosses the intervening low 

 ground. This fort is built in the same style as Tughlakabad, but it 

 is a very small place, as the exterior line of works is not more than 

 half a mile in circuit. 



136. The greatest work of Muhammad Tughlak was the fortifica- 

 tion of the extensive suburbs of Delhi, lying between the Hindu 

 fort of Mai Pithora and the Musalman Citadel of Siri. These suburbs 

 had been plundered by the Moguls in the early part of the reign of 

 Ala-uddin, and their unprotected state fully justified the vast outlay 

 which the King must have incurred upon their defences. The north- 

 west wall is If mile in length, the east wall is 1J mile, and the south 

 wall is 2 miles ; the whole length of the walls being just 5 miles, or 

 somewhat more than the circuit of the fort of Eai Pithora. A consider- 

 able portion of the south wall still exists ; but the east and north- 

 west walls have been pulled down, and are now only traceable by their 

 ruins. Sharif-uddin states that Jahan-panah had 13 gates, 6 being to 

 the north-west and 7 to the south-west. 



137. Having now described the seven forts of old Delhi, I will 

 complete the account with a detail of the number of gates in each of 

 the forts, which together make up the total of " 52 gates," as recorded 

 by the old English traveller William Finch, and as preserved by the 

 people down to the present day in their pithy description of Sdt-kila 

 JBdwan-Darwdza or " seven forts and 52 gates." 



Gates. 



Ldlhot of Anang Pal 4 



Fort of Mai Pithora ,., 4 10 



Total of Hindu Dilli # . ....,,.,.... . 14 gates. 



