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³ Elliot, Vol. IV, p. 180, fn. 2. Since the above was written my attention has been drawn to the summary of a paper by Muḥammad Nāẓim on the Somnath expedition of Maḥmūd. He refers to a *qaṣīda* of Farrukhī (one of the court poets of Maḥmūd) which tells us that Maḥmūd on his way to Somnath passed by Ludrava, Chickdūr (?), Naharwāla' and Dewalwāra. Nāẓim identifies 'Ludrava' with modern Ludorva, about 10 miles west by north of the town of Jaisalmer; Chikdūr with Chiklodar Mata's Hill, 17 miles north of Pālanpur; Mundher is about 8 miles south of Patan; and Dewalwāra is mod. Delwada between Una and the island of Diu; *JRAS*, 1928, pp. 235-36. Nāẓim also rejects Firishta and appears to have formed conclusions similar to mine on Maḥmūd's route. See also Nāẓim's recently published *The Life and Times of Sulṭān Maḥmūd of Ghazna*, 1931, pp. 215 ff.