A History of the Mahrattas v1.c24.43
A History of the Mahrattas v1.c24.43
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has a long history. It was the Pātaliputra of ancient India, the Palibothra of the Greeks, and the Kusumapura of the early Gupta emperors. The name Azīmābād refers to the fact that Aurangzeb made his grandson Azīm-ush-Shān, the father of Farrukhsiyar, governor of the city, and it is still used by Muhammadans in preference to the Hindu name Patna. (I.G. (1907), xx. 65-70.)]