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Page 31 note* add—For Aurangzib's stone records at Samugarh, see Atkinson's *N. W. P. Gazetteer*, Vol. VII. (ed. 1884), p. 611. Aurangzib's camp on the eve of the battle was at a large village 21 m. s. e. of Agra, which he renamed Fatihabad, and where he founded a *serai* and a mosque called the *Mubarak Manzil* on the spot on which he rested after his victory, [here pp. 612 and 725 disagree; p. 612 being undoubtedly wrong, as Mubarak there should be *Nur*], constructed a tank, and planted a large grove to the s. e. of the place. The mosque was used as a custom-house, and the *serai* as the *tahsil* office, the tank was nearly silted up and the grove remained in tolerable preservation in 1884. (*Ibid*, 611—612 and 724—725, where there are references to Keene's *Handbook to Agra*, ed. 1878, p. 111, Cunningham's *Archæological Survey Reports*, iv. 195, and Elliot and Beames's *Supplemental Glossary*, ii. 87.) For *Samogar*, Atkinson, vii. 765.