The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c13.108

c13.108

but there could be little doubt as to its identity with Janer, midway between Ludhiana and Firozpore, near the old bed of the Sutlej, on the road from Lahore to Kaithal; Cunningham: Reports, XIV, p. 67. Rashiduddin, in his Jamiut-twarikh, quoting obviously from al-Biruni who however, has Jajjaner (I, p. 206), wrote it as Hajner, and Cunningham noticed in some Mss., it was actually written Janer. Minhaj lists the place as one of Iltutmish's conquests; the printed text has Janjer, clearly a misreading for Hajner.