Shahab-ud-Din Virk of Punjab was from a land that literally means what?
Punjabis The Punjabis (Punjabi: , ਪੰਜਾਬੀ), or Punjabi people, are an ethnic group associated with the Punjab, who speak Punjabi language. The name Punjab literally means the "land of five waters" in Persian: panj ("five") āb ("waters"). The name of the region was introduced by the Turko-Persian conquerors of South Asia and more formally popularised during the Mughal Empire. Punjab is often referred to as the breadbasket in both Pakistan and India.
Tianzhu (India) Tianzhu is the historical East Asian name for India. Originally pronounced as Hin-duk 天竺 in Old Chinese , it comes from the Chinese transliteration of the Persian "Hindu", which is itself derived from the Sanskrit "Sindhu", the native name of the Indus River. Persians travelling in northwest India named the region after the river around the 6th century BC. "Tianzhu" is just one of several Chinese transliterations of Sindhu. "Yuāndú" (身毒 "n̥i[ŋ][d]ˤuk") appears in Sima Qian's "Shiji" and "Tiandu" (天篤 ) is used in the "Hou Hanshu" (Book of the Later Han). "Yintejia" (印特伽 ) comes from the Kuchean "Indaka", another transliteration of "Hindu". A detailed account of Tianzhu is given in the "Xiyu Zhuan" (Record of the Western Regions) in the "Hou Hanshu" compiled by Fan Ye (398–445):