Emergence of Delhi

        
Hindu texts state that Delhi was called Hastinapur in Sanskrit as Hastinapur, which means "elephant-city". The origin of the name "Delhi" is not clear. It is commonly said that its eponym is Dhillu or Dilu, a king of the Maurya dynasty, who built the city in 50BC and named it after himself. In Pakrit ''dhili'' ("loose") was used to refer to the city because a a landmark iron pillar built by Raja Dhava had a weak foundation and was replaced. Coins in circulation at that time were called dehliwal. The name could bederived from Dilli, a corruption of dehleez or dehali—both terms meaning 'threshold' or 'gateway'— and symbolic of the city as a gateway to the plain starting from the city theory suggests that the city's original name was Dhilik.  It is also said that the King of indraprastha built a new fort for convenience of all four castes in the region. He ordered a gateway to that fort and later named the fort dehali. It later became Dilli. Delhi is referenced in various idioms in Indo-Aryan languages.

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