South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c11.20

c11.20

The Route of the Invasion.—In regard to the invasion of Dvārasamudra and Ma'bar the route taken is the road leading from Delhi straight across the middle of Rajputana to Gurgam; Tankal on the Jamna, where the muster roll was taken, is not shown on the maps accessible to me. There is a place Kanhur, which may be identified with Kanhun in Rajputana, a little aside of the road from Ujjain to Delhi, and this was twenty-one days' march from Tankal. Another seventeen days brought the army to Gurgam, very probably the Kharagam of the maps, a little way to the south-west of Indore, and a little to the east of the main road to Dhar and Ujjain. Therefrom the army went to Deogir, probably by the main road from Dhar to Deogir. Thenceforward the road taken seems to be the road from Deogir to Bir, a few marches to the south-east of it. Therefrom winding south-westwards, an old road leads to Barsi Railway station, and thence across the Bhima, so that the three rivers Godaveri, Sini and Bhima are passed. The army then should have come upon the place called Bandri in the country of Paras Dalvi. Bandri is apparently Pandharpur just on the right side of the Bhima, and the five days' march from Kharabad of Paras Deo, which seems to be indicated, would answer well. The only difficulty in this route is what actually is intended by the name, Kharabad. It was possibly another name of Bir or some other town in that vicinity.¹ At Bandri, Malik Kafur was said to have halted to make enquiries about the countries farther south.