518 Stailslics of the Circar of Doiolutahad, [No. 36^, 



iiah in the Jaulnah Purgunnab. Its banks are rugged, and the river 

 bed very rocky, retaining water the whole year round. 



The wliole country is covered with dilapidated tanks. Bunds or 

 bundaras, aquaducts, baolees, and draw-wells. 



Upon the plateau above the fort of Dowliitabad, 

 are to be seen a series of tanks, in the construction 

 ■of which infinite labor must have been employed. In the vicinity of 

 what is supposed to have been the site of the ancient city of Boodra 

 Vuntee, or Bhoodda Vuttee, these noble works are principally to be 

 found ; and are no doubt the undertaking of the inhabitants of this once 

 mighty city, though now assigned to the Toghlak kings ; the proba- 

 bility being, that the latter only repaired, or enlarged what they 

 found existing. The Toghlak kings, who performed these meritori- 

 ous acts, were Sultan Ghias, his son Sultan Mahomed, and Sultan 

 Feroze, the nephew of the latter ; the memories of whom are to thia 

 day venerated by the Koonbees as the Toghlak Padshahs, protectors 

 of the cultivators. 



The tanks ascribed to Sultan Mahomed are the following. The 

 Kootloogh Talow, a fine sheet of water when full, and faced with 

 masonry and steps, having a summer palace, upon its banks, it is 

 situated to the east of the village of Monsaiah, and is called after the 

 Sultan's tutor, Kootloogh Khan, who was Governor of the fort of 

 Dowlutabad at the time. 



The Purree ka Talao or as it is variously termed Rajah Yunas 

 ka Talao, and Gungeerow ka Talao, the latter name being given 

 to it on account of the Peer Gungeerovv's tomb standing on its banks, 

 is one of the tanks that were probably repaired, and not built by the 

 Toghlak Sultan; it is of large dimensions, faced with stone steps 

 on three sides, with an average depth of 70 feet and nearly 2000 

 yards in circumference, the bund which confines the water is 210 

 feet in breadth at top, and is thrown across a deep ravine ; a broad 

 flight of forty steps leads to the water on the north side, with a small- 

 er one upon the south ; it is fed by subordinate tanks, that have been 

 formed towards the hills for this purpose : one of which is made also 

 to supply the town of Rouzah by a line of under-ground pipes, lead- 

 ing from it. Tanks formed without cement as this is, are termed 

 Ahmar Punty tanks, from the circumstance of the Pundit Ahmai 

 causing mar»y of this description to be made. 



