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‡ Kamwar Khan, 179. Palam is in the Dihli district, 11 miles s. w. of the city : it lies about 10 miles w. of Mothki masjid. (Indian Atlas, sheet 49 n. e.) Masjid-i-moth, C. Stephen, plate opposite p. 1, is 5½ miles s. w. of the Dihli Gate of the city, ibid, 166, and was built in 894 H. (1488). The tradition is that a man picked up a grain of moth, sowed it, and in time built this mosque from the produce. Sadipur, not traced; there is a Madipur on sheet 49 n. e. of the Indian Atlas. This lies halfway between Palam and Badli (Agharabad). I can find no Sadipur in that direction; but there is a Sadipur near the Idgah, west of the city, see Constable's Hand Atlas, plate 47. Agharabad is n. of the city and the same as Shalimar close to Sarai Badli. Mirza Muhammad, 331, says the camp