Chapter PERI to PESHAWUR of P by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

they call Gorkhatri, to which people, especially Jogis, resort from great distances.”—Ain (orig.), i. 592; [ed. Jarrett, ii. 404. In iii. 69, Parasháwar].

1754.—“On the news that Peishor was taken, and that Nadir Shah was preparing to pass the Indus, the Moghol’s court, already in great disorder, was struck with terror.”—H. of Nadir Shah, in Hanway, ii. 363.

1783.—“The heat of Peshour seemed to me more intense, than that of any country I have visited in the upper parts of India. Other places may be warm; hot winds blowing over tracts of sand may drive us under the shelter of a wetted skreen; but at Peshour, the atmosphere, in the summer solstice, becomes almost inflammable.”—G. Forster, ed. 1808, ii. 57.

1863.—“Its present name we owe to Akbar, whose fondness for innovation led him to change the ancient Parashâwara, of which he did not know the meaning, to Peshâwar, or the ‘frontier town.’ Abul Fazl gives both names.”—Cunningham, Arch. Reports, ii. 87. Gladwin does in his translation give both names; but see above.