'7 i Account of the Town and Palace of Feerozahad. [Sept 



ascended the throne in the Palace ; refusing at the same time to take 

 possession of the " Ruby Palace," on the ground that it was the private 

 property of the family of Gheias-ood-deen Bulbun. He returned to 

 Kelokheree in the evening of the same day, so that " old Dehli," and 

 Kelokheree must have been very near each other, another presumptive 

 proof in favor of Gheiaspoor of the present day being " old Dehli."* 

 We find that on the murder of Jellal-ood-deen at Manikpoor, by his 

 nephew, the famous Allah-ood-deen Ghilzaie, the widow of the former 

 proclaimed her young son king, and, accompanying him from Kelokheree 

 to Dehli, that is from the then new, to the old city, seated him on the 

 throne in the " Green Palace," so that there were at that time no less 

 than three royal Residences in the same town : — one the Palace (in 

 which Jellal-ood-deen ascended the throne, and which may have been 

 the "White Palace" mentioned in the reign of Moez-ood-deen Barram), 

 the " Ruby Palace," so often alluded to, and the "Green Palace." 

 Allah-ood-deen, on the flight of his young cousin, entered Dehli in 

 triumph, and ascended the throne in the " Ruby Palace," 

 (1296-1316.) We find it mentioned in the Ayeen Akhberee, though 

 the fact is singularly enough not even alluded to in Ferishta, that 

 this Allah-ood-deen built the town and fort of " Secree," and the 

 site of this place is most clearly fixed by the record in a subsequent 

 part of Ferishta, that the tomb of Kootub-ood-deen Bukhteear Kakee 

 (the saint to whom pilgrimages are still made at the Kootub village, 

 so well known for its splendid Kootubmeenar) was situate in the fort 

 of Secree. Another collateral proof of this location is that the tomb 

 of Allah-ood-deen is still in partial existence near the Meenar. It is 

 recorded of Allah-ood-deen, that Palaces, Mosques, Universities, Baths, 

 Mausolea, forts and all kinds of public and private buildings sprang up, 

 during his reign, as if by magic. After Secree follow Toglukabad 

 (1322) Mahomedabad, (1325-1351,) Adilabad, and Feerozahad (1354) 

 all pretty well known and of which last, more hereafter. Ten years after 

 the death of the founder of Feerozahad occurred the invasion of Taimoor 

 (1398)of which we have ample records in that king's own institutes and 

 in the work of Shereefood-deen, Alee-Yazdu who singularly enough, 

 gives details regarding the then state of Dehli, which are not to be found 



* The " old Delhi" here and elsewhere alluded to, must not be confounded with the 

 town now so called, which will prove to have been founded by Sher Shah. — II. Q. — H. L. 



