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³³ Baranī has twelve gates but Amīr Khusrau (*Qirānus Sādāin*, Elliot vol. III p. 524) has thirteen. Sharafuddīn Yazdī, the author of *Mulfūzāt-i-Tīmūrī*, points out that the old Delhi of Mu‘izzuddīn had ten gates but three others were opened from Sīrī (‘Alāuddīn’s city) to Jahānpanāh (Tughlaq’s city). Thus Delhi had thirteen gates and not twelve. Ibn Battūtah gives the names of several of them.