The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c26.11

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In 1422 Hūshang undertook a most adventurous enterprise. Believing that elephants were required to make good his military inferiority to his neighbour of Gujarāt he resolved to lead a raid into Orissa, and to capture a number of these beasts from the raja. He cannot have understood the nature of the expedition on which he embarked, for he had to traverse the forests of Gondwāna, then an unknown country to the Muslims, but his objective was Jājpur¹, the capital of Orissa, distant more than 700 miles in a straight line from Māndū.