Editing Multan (section)

==Etymology==
The origin of Multan's name is unclear. An ancient known name of the city was ''Malli-istan''; ''Malli'' was the name of a tribe that inhabited the region and city. Some have suggested the name derives from the [[Old Persian]] word ''mulastāna,'' 'frontier land',<ref>{{Cite book| last = Wink| first = André| year = 2002| title = Al-Hind, Volume 1 Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7th–11th Centuries| publisher = Brill| isbn = 978-90-04-48300-2| url = http://brill.com/view/title/7716| page = 186}}</ref> while others have ascribed its origin to the [[Sanskrit]] word ''mūlasthāna''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Moir |first1=Zawahir |last2=Shackle |first2=Christopher |title=Ismaili Hymns from South Asia: An Introduction to the Ginans |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781136822841 |page=186|quote=The name of the actual city of Multan derives from the same Sanskrit word (Sk mūlasthāna-).}}</ref>