2 E. D. Maclagan— Abud-FazVs account of the Multan Sirhar. [No. 1, 
miles, see Jarrett Ain. II. 166 n) locates the junction with the Ravi not 
far from the present point of junction and this although the Ravi is 
known to have run at a later date, or at least to have had an alterna¬ 
tive course, past Multan and to have joined the Cinab south of that 
city. There is now no trace of any village in the Multan district which 
can be identified with Abu-l-FazTs Zafarpur. 
As regards the still more mysterious sentence about the Bias and 
Satlaj rivers I may note that in the tract lying between the old bed of 
the Bias in the Multan district and the present bed of the Satlaj there 
are numerous meandering depressions which no doubt represent the 
courses of parts of one or both these rivers. Among the names by which 
these depressions are known are Viliari and Bhitari which are no doubt 
the counterparts of the Eari or Har-hari of our text. The word 
Dhandh is applied in this and other Panjab districts to any depression 
through which a liver or its branch is liable to flow, and in some places 
the word Wahind or Wend is used in the same sense ( e.g ., in the name 
of a village, Wahind Sarmanl—the word being connected with tvahan 
to flow). Another word applied to the old depressions in Multan is Nai 
( e.g ., Sukh-nai, Sidh-nai), and the Nurni of Abu-1-Fazl should perhaps 
be read as ‘ Nur-nai.’ Depressions of the nature described are also 
known as ‘ w T alas ’ or ‘ walls.’ 
The Sirkar of Multan contained five separate tracts, viz .:— 
(i) Bet Jalandhar Duab, between the Bias and Satlaj. 
(ii) Bari Duab, between the Bias and Ravi. 
(iii) Ricnau Duab, between the Ravi and Cinab. 
(iv) Sindh Sagar Duab, between the Cinab and Indus. 
(v) Birun-i-Panjnad, outside the Five Rivers. 
The reading of the word ‘ Bet ’ in ‘ Bet Jalandhar Duab * is 
doubtful, see Jarrett II. 315 n 2 It is said that in old documents the 
phrase is ‘Bast’ or ‘ Bist ’ ‘Jalandhar Duab;’ but this is not among 
the variants quoted by Blochmann (vernac. p. 550). Bist is said to be a 
contraction for ‘ Bias-Satlaj,’ after the manner of ‘Bari’ ‘Ricnau,’ &c. 
The mahals of the Bet Jalandhar Duab and the castes inhabiting 
them are given as follows by Jarrett. I have added remarks and sug¬ 
gestions against each:— 
Mahals. Castes. Remarks. 
Adamwahan ... Hasar ... ... This village is now held by Sayyids, blit is said 
iii the settlement records to have been founded 
by one Adam, a Cannar by tribe. The word 
Hasar () must be an error for Cannar 
( 3*^ )• The Cannars are still a well-known 
tribe in this neighbourhood, and own land in this 
village. 
