The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c3.6

v3.c3.6

In place-names the spelling of the *Imperial Gazetteer of India* has, with few exceptions, been followed, but the adoption of *q* as the equivalent of ق necessitates the substitution of Qandahār for the better-known Kandahār, and *e*, representing no Arabic or Persian letter, has been omitted from such names as Fathābād and Fathpur, the *Gazetteer* spelling of which serves only to stereotype a vulgar and corrupt pronunciation. The name of the great river of Southern India is spelt *Krishna*, as there appears to be no justification for the *Gazetteer* spelling *Kistna*; *Awsa* has been substituted for *Owsa* as the name of a town in the Deccan hardly well enough known to entitle it to the honour of a conventionalized spelling; and the name of the founder of the Lodī dynasty is spelt Buhlūl, as there appears to be no reason to preserve the mispronunciation enshrined in the more familiar Bahlol.