Chanderi, a town of Central India, 105 miles S. of Gwalior. It is now an insignificant place, but its fort and many ruined buildings attest its strength and splendour in former times, when it is said to have contained 14,000 stone houses (not to speak of mosques), and 360 caravanserais.
Chanderi
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 98
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