 Mandesh is probably a corruption of Madhyadesh from Sanskrit word "Madhya" (मध्य)Central + "Desh" (देश) land or country, because it was a mountain province right in the middle of that region, assuming the Ghurid rulers were "Hindus" .A second explanation, which seems more to be plausible due archeological sites and the factual and historical context (f.ex.Suri as epithet or nickname), the name Mandesh is a Parthian and Middle Persian word taken from two words, "māna" and "day(sh)", related with Sogdian "M'yn" and "Diy", meaning "rulers of the country" or "men (owner) of the land".