Twilight of the Sultanate c7.s1.114

c7.s1.114

¹⁰⁰ Z.N., II, 106. M.T., E and D, III, 441. Tīmūr was mistaken in his belief that Hauz-i-Khās "was built by Sultan Fīrōz Shāh". Sharafuddīn persists in the mistake. Z.N., II, 109. The reservoir of Hauz-i-Khās, also known as Hauz-i-'Alāī, was built by Sultan 'Alāuddīn Khaljī (1296-1316) in the very first year of his accession. This magnificent tank covered an area of over 70 acres, and was surrounded by a stone and masonry wall. Fīrōz Tughlaq only got it cleaned in about 1354 as it had got filled with mud and silt by that time obviously through neglect. Badaonī, Ranking, I, 338-9 also 347 n. Thomas, *Chronicles*, 310 n. Carr Stephen, 183. Saiyyad Ahmad Khan, Āsār, BK III, 27. K. S. Lal, *History of the Khaljīs*, 375.