Panipat, a town in the Punjab, 53 m. N. of Delhi; was the scene of two decisive battles, one in 1526 to the establishment of the Mogul dynasty at Delhi, and another in 1701 to the extinction of the Mahratta supremacy in North-West India.
Population (circa 1900) given as 29,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Pánini * Panizzi, Antonio