980 Account of the Town and Pat ace of Feerozabad. [Sept. 



Maharaja Hindoo Rao. Towards identifying these two localities, (to 

 the first of which, however, we must confine our present observations, 

 leaving the account of the Jehannamah Palace for a future occasion,) as 

 here laid down,* with the names they bear in contemporary and more 

 recent histories, we have the following evidence. 



In the first place it is stated in the Zuffernama of Alee Yezd, an almost 

 contemporary author, whom we have had the good fortune to consult 

 in the original, that Feerozabad was situate opposite the embouchure 

 of the canal brought by Feeroz from the Kalee Nuddee into the Jum- 

 na, and that embouchure corresponds exactly with that of the present 

 Doab Canal which is, as near as possible, opposite the present ruins. 

 In the second place it is stated, that Feerozabad was distant three miles 

 from Dehli, and three miles from Jehannamah, which, allowing that the 

 site beyond Gheiaspoor was old Dehli, and that we have correctly 

 identified the site of Jehannamah, corresponds as near as can be, allow- 

 ing an oriental latitude for distances, with the present position. In the 

 third place we have it recorded that Feeroz Shah brought a branch of his 

 canal to Feerozabad, and there is at the present day a branch, choked 

 up, leading from the main stream into the centre of the site we have 

 fixed upon ; and lastly, were any further evidence required, and perhaps 

 the most convincing proof of all, is the fact that the name of Feeroza- 

 bad is still in existence, and applied to the spot on which the Kotla, 

 &c. are situate. There is no actual village, and the Zumeendars of the 

 lands that bear that name, live in the town of Dehli, but they pay rent 

 under that name, and this circumstance most satisfactorily completes 

 the chain of local evidence. The name is erroneously laid down in the 

 district map of the Sudder Board of Revenue, as Feerozpoor. Let us 

 now proceed to a short historical sketch of the place. 



It is rather singular that the only mention made of the town in 

 Ferishta's history of the life of Feeroz Togluk, (we are in hopes, how- 

 ever, of being able to secure more authentic materials in the history of 

 Zeea-ood-deen Bunu, and the Shums-seeraj-Ufeef Feerozshahee, pro- 

 mised us, and which may be available in our description of the locali- 



* With all due deference the high authority, under which the Revenue map of the 

 district of Dehli made its appearance, that of Mr. H. M. Elliot, then Secretary to the 

 Board of Revenue, we think that the position of Jehannamah is erroneously indicated 

 in that map, where it is placed, viz -.—half a mile or more to the right of the canal, or 

 nearly on the spot occupied by the new Edgah. — H. C. and II. L. 



