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⁴ *Notes on Afghanistan*, p. 320. Raverty informed me that his authority for the date was the *Zain-ul-Akbar* by Abū S'aīd-i-Abū-l Hakk, who wrote his history in the time of Sultan Mahmūd and his sons, not many years after the date stated. Another more modern writer dates the foundation in the year 440 of Bikramajit, which of course is absurd; but if the figures are taken as referring to the Harsha era, the date would be A. D. 1045, about the time of Ānangapāla. Tieffenthaler was told that Delhi had been founded by a Tomar Rāja named Rāsena in A. H. 307 = A. D. 919–20 (*Géogr. de l'Indoustan*, Fr. transl., Berlin, 1791, p. 125). In certain inscriptions and popular verses Delhi is called Yoginīpura (*Ind. Ant.*, 1912, p. 86, and *Ep. Ind.*, xii, 45).