Twilight of the Sultanate c8.s1.47

c8.s1.47

⁴⁰ Before Ahmedabad was built in 1411, Asāwal, in its vicinity, was one of the very important towns of northern Gujarat. Alberūnī mentions it and Idrīsī refers to it as populous, rich and industrial. Baranī, Yahyā, Nizāmuddīn Ahmad and the author of *Mirāt-i-Sikandarī* also write about it. It appears that Asāwal was situated outside the city walls of Ahmedabad, to its south, beyond the Jamalpur gate. Bayley, *Gujarat*, 427-28; Commissariat, I, 59-60. T.M.S., 172, has Broach in place of Asāwal.