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Sirhind. Is it not more probable that the change was like that 

 which converted Purushpura into Peshawar ? Sihra means a 

 chaplet or garland and is used by Khali Khan, I, 126, to 

 designate a row of pearls, and Shah Jehan may have thought 

 that as the name Sirhind, or Head of India, was no longer 

 appropriate, it might, by a slight change, be converted into 

 Sirhind, " the chaplet of India," in allusion to the gardens for 

 which the city was famous. Whatever was the reason of the 

 change, it was not long effectual, for the city soon became 

 known again as Sirhind, and it is still so called. 



H. B. 



