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JOURNAL 
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ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
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Part I.— HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 
No. 1. —1901. 
Abu-l-FazVs account of the Multan Sirkar in the Third Hook of the 
Ain-i-Akbari.—By E. D. Maclagan, C.S. 
[Read December, 1900.] 
Abu-1-Fazl in the Third Book of the Ain-i-Akbari describes among 
other provinces the Suba of Multan (pp. 325 to 336 of Jarrett’s 
Translation, Vol. II). This Suba was divided into 3 Sirkars one of 
which, the Sirkar of Multan, includes the present British district of 
that name. Having been stationed in that district for some years I 
venture to make a few suggestions regarding certain difficulties which 
present themselves in Abu-1-Fazl’s description of the Sirkar. 
In commencing to describe the Suba Abu-1-Fazl gives an account 
of the rivers which flow through ifc; he says :— 
1 The Bihat joins the Cinab near the province of Shor and after 
a course of 27 kos they unite with the Ravi near Zafarpur 
aud the three flowing collectively in one stream for 60 kos 
enter the Indus near Uc. Within 12 kos of Firozpur, the 
Biah joins the Satlaj which then bears several names, viz., 
Har, Hari, Dand, Nurni, and in the neighbourhood of 
Multan, confluent with the former four, their accumulated 
waters unite.’ 
The difficulties of this passage are fully considered in Col. Jarrett’s 
note and I regret to say I can throw little light on the matter. 
Presuming the Jihlam aud Cinab to have then met near Trimwu Ghat 
(their present meeting place) the measurement of 27 kos (or say 54 
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