CHAPTER VI
FIROZABAD AND THE DELHI OF SHER SHAH
Extent of Firozabad—Sher Shah's walls—Kalan Masjid—Kotila of Firoze Shah—Asoka Pillar— Jama Masjid of Firoze Shah—Kushk Anwar—Purana Kila—Kila Kona Mosque—Tomb of Mahomed Shah —Buildings in Khairpur—Jantar Mantar—Kadam Sharif—Old Idgah.
The limits of the city of Firozabad are extremely difficult to trace, because the city of Shahjahanabad was built at such a short distance, as to make it easier for the inhabitants to pillage the building materials of the older city than to obtain them from further afield. A part of the older city was included within the newer, but the greater part was abandoned.
Roughly speaking, the city extended over a semicircle, with a radius of a mile and a half from the centre of the Kotila on the river-bank. Starting from this point, the edge of the houses ran along Dariaganj, and then across to the end of the Chandni Chouk. The line of the houses
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