History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c35.s14.25

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A genealogy of the Tomaras of Delhi is given by General Cunningham from Abul Fazal and from bardic records and it is taken by Gaurishankar at page 348 (Tod); but no inscriptions can be quoted in support of it. Copper coins of Anangapāla II who built Delhi fort have been found (1051 A.D.). That Delhi was originally founded by the Tomaras and that the country about it called Hariyāna was ruled first by them and subsequently by the Chauhans is found recorded in an inscription in a well dated St. 1384 or 1327 A. D. and four generations of the Chauhans must have ruled there after the Tomaras viz., Visaladeva, Prithvibhata Someśvara and (Delhi Prithvīrāja Museum stone Insc. I. A. XIX p. 218).*