250 SKETCH or THE SIKS^/ 



among the Mdlaivd Sinks ^ are Sa'heb Sinh of^ Patidld, B'hanga' Sin^^ 

 of T'hd?iesur, B'ha'g Sinh, of Jhind, and B'hailal Sinh, of KeintaL 

 Besides these, there are several inferior chiefs, such as Gu'ru'dah Sinh,, 

 Jud'h Sinh, Gujar Sinh, and Carm Sinh,. all of whom have a few villa- 

 ges, and some horse, and consider themselves independent ; though they,, 

 in general, are content to secure their possessions, by attaching them^ 

 selves to one or other of the more pov/erfui leaders. 



The country of the Mdlawd Sinh is, in some parts, fruitful: but those 

 €istri(5ls of it; which border on Hdnsyd and Carnal, are very barren ; 

 being -covered with low wood; and, in many places, almost destitute of 

 Water, Sarhind was formerly the capital of this country ; but it is now a 

 feomplete ruin, and has probably never recovered the dreadful ravages; 

 6f the Bairdgi Banda, who is stated, not only to have destroyed its 

 mosques, but to have levelled all its palaces, and public buildings, with 

 the ground. Pa^m/^i Is not^the\ largest and most flourishing town of 

 this province, and next to it T'hdnesur, which is still held in high religious 

 veneration, by the Hindus ^ who have also a Very high reverence for the 

 fwQY Serasweti^ which flows through this province. The territories: of 

 the chiefo of Mdlawd Sink are bounded, to the N. \V. by the Satlcj, be- 

 tween vyhich and the Bey ah, \s the country called the JaUndra Beit, or 

 Jalendm. Dddhj the 'S'/M5 inhabiting which are called the Diidbd Sink, or 

 the Sinhs who dwell between the rivers.* The country of Jalendra Dudb,. 

 which reaches from the mountains to the jun6lion of the 6"^?/^}' and the 

 Beyah, is the most fruitful of all the posses^sions of the Sikhs; and is, per- 



* With the chiefs of" the SiHs in the Jalendra Dudh, we are little acquainted. Ta'ra' 

 Sinh is the most considerable, but he and the others have been greatly weakcaed, by their con- 

 stant and iucreasiug internal divisions. 



