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 this also has gone, and the only monument connected with the city which now exists is the Hauz Khas of Ala-ud-din, seldom visited, and worthy of no special mention.

Tughlukabad was founded by Tughlak Shah about A.D. 1321, and must have been constructed with great rapidity, for that monarch only lived until 1325, and no work can have been done after his death. The plan shows the walls and gates : what authority, other than tradition, the compilers had for the names of the gates is not known.

The walls of Jahanpanah were constructed, about A.D. 1328, by Mahomed Tughlak : there were six gates in the western wall, and seven in the eastern, but the name of one only survives, the Maidan Gate on the west, near an old idgah. The walls of this city also were removed by Sher Shah.

—This city may be approached from three sides : there is a road from the Kutb Minar; there is another from the railway-station of Tughlukabad; and there is a rough track, unmetalled and unbridged and badly maintained, which approaches the city from the small station of Okhla. The middle course is the best, but also the longest and hardest to arrange; by it,