The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.487

v3.c20.487

After his return he founded on the banks of the Jumna immediately to the south of the present city of Delhi, a new capital, which he called Fīrūzābād, a name which he had already vauntingly bestowed on the city of Pāndua. The new town occupied the sites of the old town of Indarpat and eleven other villages or hamlets, and contained no fewer than eight large mosques. A regular service of public conveyances, with fixed rates of hire connected it with Old Delhi, ten miles distant. In the following year Fīrūz, when visiting Dīpālpūr, gave directions for the cutting of a canal from the Sutlej to Jhajjar, a town within forty miles of Delhi, and in 1356 he founded Hissār on the sites of two villages Larās-i-Buzurg and Larās-i-Khurd. The neighbourhood was arid, and the new town was supplied with water by two canals, one from the Jumna, in the neighbourhood of Karnāl, and the other from the Sutlej, near the point at which it emerges from the mountains. The canal from Dīpālpūr to Jhajjar also passed at no great distance from the new town.