982 Account of the Town and Palace of Feerozabad. [Sept. 



and general character, correspond so entirely, allowing for the differ- 

 ence of the edifices, one a Palace the other a Mosque, that there can be 

 no mistake in ascribing both edifices to the same era, besides which 

 the several buildings that elsewhere mark the site of Feerozabad, 

 and which will be mentioned hereafter, all bear evident signs of 

 having been erected about the same period as the Kalan Musjeed. 

 Although Feerozabad is not again expressly mentioned by the his- 

 torian we have quoted during the life of its founder, it is reasonable 

 to suppose, it continued a place of importance during his life and 

 perhaps his place of ordinary residence. On the death of Feeroz in 

 A. H. 790, (A. D. 1388,) Geias-ood-deen Togluk, his grandson (by 

 the favorite and eldest, but deceased, son Jutteh Khan) is particularly 

 stated to have ascended the throne in the Palace of Feerozabad, a fact 

 which would go far to establish the correctness of the inference, that 

 his own and of course favorite town was the usual residence of Feeroz. 

 Gheias-ood-deen was succeeded by a cousin named Aboo-Bukr. This 

 prince was, after a short reign of one year and six months, made pri- 

 soner, and superseded by his uncle Nusseer-ood-deen, who first took 

 possession of the Palace of Juhannamah, Aboo Bukr being " in the 

 opposite quarter of the city called Feerozabad" (which supposing him 

 to have been in the Palace of that town would be a correct expression 

 with regard to the relative position of the royal residences of Juhanna- 

 ma and the Kotla, as Feerozabad appears to have stretched in a N. W. 

 direction towards the former. On the 18th of April 1389, (2d Jumah- 

 ool-awul 789 A. H.) a battle took place in the very streets of Feeroza- 

 bad, in which 50,000 men were engaged under Nusseer-ood-deen, a 

 fact that speaks convincingly as to the great extent of ground it must 

 have covered. It may also lead to the inference, that the town was 

 very imperfectly protected by outer walls ; if they had been of any 

 great strength or size, some trace of them would surely be visible, but 

 there is not one stone upon the other, west of the Palace, that could be 

 pronounced the debris of a wall likely to have been the town-wall 

 of Feerozabad. Nusseer-ood-deen was defeated with the assistance 

 of Bahadur Kadeer, a Mewatee chief, who seems to have held the 

 scales in which several sovereigns were weighed, and found wanting if 

 he did not side with them. He came to the aid of Aboo Bukr, with 

 a strong re inforcement. On the following day, the king in possession, 



