FEROZ TAGIIALAQ SHAH, king of Debit, was grandfather of Sultan 3fahmud, whom Timur conquered. It was this king (A.D. 1351-1388, Am. 752-790) who removed the lat or pillar, according to ono account, from near Kilizrabad, immediately west of the Juinna, at the foot of the Siwalik Hills, to Dehli, and erected it in tho centre of his palace. This column is alluded to by Chand as telling the fame of the Chohan,' but ho says it was placed at Nigumbode,' a place of pilgrimage on the Jumna, a few miles below Delili, whence it must have been removed to its present singular position. The name of Beesildeo (Visala deva) heads the inscription on the pillar. The pillar is now known RS one of the Dehli Lat, also the Golden Lat, so called from the gilt kalasa, pinnacle or ball, which Feroz Shah placed on its summit. This monolith, like the kindred pillar at Allahabad, was in the first instance exclusively devoted to the exhibition of a counterpart text of the edicts of Asoka, but succeeding generations have taken advantage of the ready prepared monument to supplement a record of their own prowess. The other stone pillar at Delili was
brought from Mimt. His long reign was distin guished by tho erection of many mosques, serai, colleges, hospitals, public baths, wells, aqueducts, and reservoirs for irrigation. He excavated a fine canal, running from the river Jumna through the province of Dehli to the Kaggar river, which subsequently fell into disuse ; but 200 miles of it were restored by the British in the middle of the 19th century. The public works executed in his reign were 60 darns across rivers, and 30 reservoirs to promote irrigation, 40 mosques, 30 colleges, 100 caravausans, 100 hospitals, 100 public baths, 150 bridges, besides many other buildings.—Tods Rajasthan, p. 452 ; Orme. Seo Lat.