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after bis son, Fath Klian. 224 From thence be continued bis march to 
Hansi, having been joined by the feudatories of Samanak and Sunam 
with their respective contingents. 
On his return from Lakhanawati in 754 H. (1353 A. D.), he founded 
the Firuzali Hisar, on the site of which were two villages \_tal-wandis] ; 
and there were fifty kharaks included in the first, and forty kharaks in 
the other. These villages were called Bara (Great) Saras, and Chliota 
(Little) Saras, respectively; and in this tract of country there are no 
villages containing other than these kharaks [the Hindi for a cattle-shed, 
but hero seems to refer to the dwellings such as the Jats of the Khar’l 
and Si-al tribes construct—a flat roof of thatch or canes raised on poles 
but without sides or walls]. The Sultan was much pleased with the 
situation of Bara Saras, 226 and he thought it would be advantageous to 
found a town there; for water was deficient there at that period, and, in 
the hot season, travellers had to pay as high as ionv jltals for a kuzah of 
water. * # * A fortress of considerable extent and loftiness was com¬ 
menced ; and in course of time [two years and a half] the place was 
completed, and the Sultan named it Hisar-i-Firuzah or the Firuzali 
Hisar or Fortress. It was surrounded with a ditch, and within the 
hisar a large and deep hauz or reservoir was constructed, which was 
intended to supply the ditch.” 226 
hammadan rale and prior to Firoz Shah’s reign, nothing worthy of note occurred ” / 
See note 239, page 274, for the confirmation or otherwise of this statement. Then it 
states, that, in 1372 he erected the fort, and founded the town of Hissar, and had 
to cut a canal from the Jainna. # * # Firoz also built the Kasbah of Fattiabad, to 
which place, from the Ghaggar, he had a small canal cut, which is still in use.” In 
the same “Report” it is stated, that “Hissar” is otherwise called “ Habeli ”— 
“ Hissar ( alias Habeli).” This of course is a great error. Haweli is not the alias of 
Hisar, any more than it is of Rewari bd haweli , Buda’un bd haweli , Siw-istan bd 
haweli , and many other places. Hisar bd haweli is as old as the A’in-i-Akbari, 
wherein it will be found with many others. Haweli is merely the ’Arabic for ‘ habita¬ 
tion,’ ‘ mansion,’ etc.—the Government building or public offices, appertaining to 
the chief town of a Sarhdr. Hisar not “ Hissar ,” of course means a fortress or 
fortified place. 
221 At the same time he founded three other small fortified places, which he 
named after his other sons, namely, Zafar-abad, Riza-abad, and Muhammad-pur. 
Villages still bearing these names, and marking the sites, lie, in succession, along 
the banks of the Ghag-ghar on the south side, north-east of Fath-abad, but the places 
he founded have now disappeared. 
225 At each of those places there was, and still is, I believe, a stone column like 
the lath of Firuz Shah at Dihli. They were of red sandstone, and were erected by 
his orders. 
226 The “Report” above referred to states, that, immediately under the build¬ 
ing, a spiral staircase leads to a series of rooms, said to be connected under ground, 
with a similar building at Hansi. A Jami’ Masjid, erected by Sultan Firuz Shah. 
