Sarsuti

Sarsuti, later known as Sirsa, stands near the bed of the Ghaggar on the northwestern Indian plain. Its old mounds have yielded coins and objects from several early kingdoms, while a ninth-century inscription records the building of a brick temple to Shiva. Medieval writers called the town Sarsuti, a name associated with the Sarasvati. Its fortress guarded a place long settled between the Punjab and the approaches to Delhi.

After the Second Battle of Tarain in 1192, the chronicler Hasan Nizami placed the capture of Prithviraj Chauhan at Sarsuti. The town became an administrative district of the Delhi Sultanate. Ibn Battuta visited in 1341 and noted its plentiful rice, some of which was sent to Delhi. Under Akbar, the Ain-i-Akbari recorded Sarsuti among the districts of Hisar, assessed for both revenue and military service.