"In the country of Hindustan there are four defences,... The second defence consists of woods and forests and trees, which, interweaving stem with stem and branch with branch, render it very difficult to penetrate into that country."

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Timur, in his (disputed) autobiography Malfuzat-i Timuri . in The history of India : as told by its own historians. The Muhammadan period" also in Lal, K. S. (1995). Growth of scheduled tribes and castes in medieval India.