580 Lieutenant Burnes’ Memoir on the 
In proof of this, they have also a story, that the ancestors of the present 
RAos of Cutch were once a pennyless class of shepherds, who, coming from 
Sami (Tatta) in Sinde, fed their flocks in Cutch, and, being patronised by 
the Denddar Jégis, were raised to be rulers of the country. Now the sub- 
stance of this is true,—that the Jhareja family of the RAos of Cutch did come 
from Tatta, in Sinde, and did tend herds of cattle in Cutch,—although they 
were certainly not raised to their present elevation by so peaceable a method 
as the simple intercession of a Hinda saint. Such, however, is the alteration 
which a story undergoes in the course of four hundred years. 
The point most difficult to determine is the period at which these changes 
in the Runn took place. The Denddar Jégts are said to have been only 
coeval with the RAos of Cutch, and this would bring it down to so late a 
period as the fourteenth century, or, if we take the time the first Jharejds 
came into the country, perhaps two hundred years sooner ; yet the Muham- 
medans had sway over India even before this last period, and their historians 
are silent as to any great convulsion having taken place. Asut Fazt, the 
author of the Ayin Acbari, who wrote in the Emperor Acsar’s reign, which 
commenced but in 1556, makes Cutch so much more extensive in its dimen- 
sions than it really is, at whatever standard we take the cés that it might 
have been joined to Sinde in his time ; but then he mentions that part of 
the Runn, which borders on Cittywar (Jhallawar) as being famous for the 
salt it produced. Cutch was a country little known to the Muhammedan 
Emperors of Hindistan,* and Asut Fazi may have derived the account 
which he gives of it from old archives in the possession of his master, or 
from reports which may have travelled down from the time of Manmtp 
of Ghazni, who first visited these parts about eight hundred years ago, 
and in whose time the countries may have been united,—but these are 
mere conjectures. There are several cities about Abé, and also in the 
western parts of Malwa, as mentioned at page $25 of the Second Appendix to 
Sir Jonn Matcotm’s * Memoir of Central India,” which are stated to have 
been overwhelmed at a remote period by an earthquake. Some believe this 
event to have occurred only three hundred years ago, and the convulsion 
which overthrew them, may have affected the Runn of Cutch. 
(Signed) Arex. Burnes. 
* See note P. 
