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a distance of 2} fursakhs; then came AQ and Katakah, and Dwaiķir (Deogir). Leaving Hild, and then Biânah, a great place with this, they proceeded to Nandurbar, a small fine bazars and a splendid mosque. From this city occupied by Marathas, and thence to Saghar, they proceeded to Kôl. Whilst there, being invited a large and fine town standing on a considerable to assist in the relief of the neighbouring town of river of the same name, and surrounded by groves Jal&li, attacked by a body of Hindus, they lost of fruit trees; then to Kin bayat or Cambay. largely in the fight, and other mishaps followed. Zhih&r is of course Dhar, and the retrogres
Tilpat survives, & very ancient town, abont sion to Ujjain may be a slip of memory. ten miles S. E. of the Kutb Minar. It is a Mahal Nandurbar keeps its place on our maps, but of the Sirkâr Dehli in the Ain-i-Albari. Ad and what is S&ghar P One would think it must be Hild I cannot fix. Bianah is still more pug- Surat or Bharoch. zling. We are far away from the city and fortress (8) From Cam bay the travellers went to of that name, so well known in the annals of the Kawi (or Kåwai), a place on a tidal estuary beDehli kings. There is a place Miânah between longing to the pagan Rai Jalansi, and from Tilpat and Kol, but I have no information K&wi to Kanda ha r. where the said Rai lived. about it. JalAli still exists about ten miles east Here they took ship, and after two days arrived at of Aligadh, and is a Mahal of Sirkår Kol in the the island of Bairam. They landed on this Ain.
island, which had been occupied, but was deserted (6) At length they proceed towards Kana uj. since its capture by the Muhammadang. Next The first station named is Borjbarah, where day they reached the city of Kakah, a large was a hermitage occupied by a handsome and place with great bazars, belonging to the pagan virtuous shekh called Muhammad the Naked. king Dunkál. Their next camp was on the banks of the Ab.i. Here we need have no difficulties. Ka wi si&h, and thence they reached Ka nauj.
is Konwai, on the south of the MAhi estuary; BorjbQrah may be Birjpur, & village N.E. of Kanda hâr is Gandar, on the Baroda River, which Mainpuri. Ab-i-Bidh is of course the Kálinadi appears as a port of commerce in De Barros and translated ; in Sharif-ud-din's History of Timur, as in Barbosa ; its chief was probably one of the Jhala rendered by Peter de la Croix, the same river Rajputs (Jhalabansi). Bairam is Piram Island, appears in Turkish as Kard-et.
the Baiones of the Periplus, the site of a fortress From Kanauj they turn south : the stages which had been recently taken by the troops of named are Hanaul, Wazirpor, Al-Bajali. Muhammad Tughlak. Kakah is the port of sah, the town of Mauri, the town of Marh, Ghogho, belonging to the Gohil Rája, "Lord of Gogo the town of Al&par, and then Galyar or and Piram." Gwalior.
(9) Sailing from Ghogho, in three days' run From Gwalior to Barwan (or Parwan), they reach Sind & bar. This was an island on Amwari, Kajarra, where there was a lake which were 36 villages, and which was embraced by about a mile long surrounded by idol-temples, &c. the waters of an estuary, which were fresh at ebb. Thence to Chanderi, a great town with splen- tide but salt at flood. There were two cities on it; did bazars.
one the old Hindu city, the other built by the MuKajarr, from name and features, must be, hammadans. The voyagers sailed close hy this 28 Elliot pointed out, Khajuraho, near the Ken island, and anchored under another small island River, which has been described by General near the mainland where there was a temple, a Cunningham; t yet the route is strangely cir. grove, and a tank of water. Ibn Batuta had a sincuitous. The only Alap ar that I can trace lies gular rencontre with a Jogi whom he found leaning west of Gwalior; it was the scene of a brilliant against the wall of the temple. action by Sir R. Napier in 1858. BajAlisah is Sindabær is mentioned by several other writprobably disguised. This was the name, the ers e. g. Masudi, by Edrisi, by Rashid-ud-din, and traveller tells us elsewhere, of a great cemetery
by Abulfeda. The latter, and perhaps also Edrisi, near Dehli, after which one of the city gates was confounds it with Sindân (Sanján), between Surat called. I
and Bombay. But at the same time the data (7) From Chanderi the party goes to Zhi. quoted by Abulfeda show that it was three days (sail har (445), "the capital of Malwah;" thence to no doubt) south of Tana, and reached (as Ibn Ujjain, and then to Daulat & bad, a great city Batuta tells us) immediately before Honore; whilst which was formed of three parts-Daulatabad, Rashid-ud-din names it as the first of the cities • Races of the N.W. P. IL. 133.
[II. 412. would explain the approach to Gwalior from Al&p úr. Ancient Geog. of India, and Archeological Reports, Barwan is perhaps Baron on the Sindh, near Dhattiah,
Is it possible that Bajálish and Mauri are Talesar and Amwari Umrah, near Jhansi. and Mathra? This would be sigzag indeed, but it! Forbes, Ras Mala, I. 317 seqq.
