History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c8.47

c8.47

²¹ Ibn Batūṭah, III, Paris, pp. 146-47. Malfūzāt-i-Timuri, Elliot, III, pp. 447-48. Zafarnamah, Elliot, III, p. 504. Carr Stephen, Archæology of Dihli, pp. 98-99. Ibn Batūṭah writes : Dihli consists of four cities :—
(i) The old Dihli founded by the Hindus, which was conquered in 584 A.H.
(ii) Siri which had been given by the Sultan to Ghiyas-al-Dīn, the ‘Abbasid.
(iii) Tughluqabad which was built by the Sultan’s father.
(iv) Jahānpanāh, which has been built by the present Sultan. The Sultan wished to enclose them within a wall but he gave up the scheme for financial reasons.