South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c13.s1.77

c13.s1.77

16. Kanhun.—There is a place Kanhur a little to the east of the road from Matthra to Ujjain across Central India. This is described as a place, twenty-one days' march from Tankal. It seems to be the place marked Kanhur which may answer well the itinerary, twenty-one days' march from Tankal on the Jumna, which must have been somewhere near Muttra. From here the further march to Gurgam took seventeen days according to Amir Khusru. If the identification of Gurgam with Kharegam should prove correct this may be the place that is meant by Amir Khusru. The actual importance of the identification of these three places consists in our gaining an idea of the road actually taken, which, in this present instance, appears to have followed more or less, the modern road leading from Muttra and going through Bharatpur and Kotta to Ujjain, and thence down to Māndhāta on the Narbada, and across south-eastwards to Elichpur.