The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c11.13

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⁵ *LEC*, p. 331, fn. 1. According to Mas‘ūdī, the king of Kanauj is one of the kings of Sind, and Kashmir forms part of Sind. See *Elliot*, I, pp. 22-23. He may have been misinformed: But it is possible that Mas‘ūdī's remarks are based on the fact that during certain periods, the kings of Kanauj and Kashmir were rulers of portions of Greater Sind, which may have vaguely extended towards the north to the frontier of Kashmir. See fn. 3, p. 4. It is also possible that like *Hidu* of Darius I and *India* of Herodotus *Sind* may have sometimes meant the whole valley of the Sindhu and the adjacent region. For the map and boundary of Sind by Ibn Hauqal, see *Elliot*, I, pp. 32-38.