1892.] H. G. Raverty —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 171 
At pages 787-88, under Malik Badr-ud-Din, Sunkar-i-Sufi, entitled 
Husrat Klian. it is stated, that, “ in 657 A. H. [which began on the 28th 
of December, 1258 A. D.] he was placed in charge of the then western 
frontier districts of the Dihli kingdom, namely, the city of Tabarhindah 
[subsequently called Bhatiudali], Sunam, Jhajhar, and Lak-wal [Lakhhi- 
wal], i5 and the frontiers as far as the ferries over the river Biah,” which 
shows that the Biah still flowed in its old bed, and also tends to 
prove that the parts between the places mentioned above and the Biah 
were not then deserted by the rivers, and not reduced to a desert. Had 
they been so, of what use was it defending the line of a dried-up Biah 
and its “ ferries ” from the waterless desert side ? The Mughals. or 
their vassals and tributaries, including Malik Tzz-ud-Din, Balban-i- 
Kashlu Khan, were then in the possession of the tracts on, and west of, 
the Biah, consisting of the provinces of l/chchh, Multan, and Lahor. 
The author adds, that, “up to the date of this book being written [his 
history], he [Nusrat Khan] is still stationed on that frontier, with 
ample military resources and a large army.” 46 
In several other places in his work, the author throws considerable 
light on this subject. At page 723, he says, that, after he first came to 
U'chchh from Ghaznin by Banian, in Safar, 625 H., he went to the camp 
of Malik Taj-ud-Din, Sanjar-i-Gajz-lak Khan, at the time Sultan I-yal- 
timish was about to invest Sultan Nasir-ud-Din, Kaba-jah, in that 
stronghold, Taj-ud-Din, Sanjar, having lately been put in possession of 
the district of Wanj-rut (properly, TVanjh-rut) 47 of Multan. This place 
in Zi-Ka’dah [the eleventh month], 647 H., by way of Hansf and Uboh-liar, right 
across the present desert tract. He adds : “ When the rainy season set in, and the 
rains of compassion fell, on the 26tli of Jamadi-ul-Awwal [the fifth month of the 
following year], he set out on his return by way of the fort of Marut, Sarasti, and 
Hansi [page 688], and reached the capital in the following month. See also note to 
page 823 of that work. 
45 Now generally known as the Lakhhi Jangal. It is described farther 
on. 
46 Malik Sher Khan-i-Sunkar appears to have again been placed in charge of 
the western frontiers after his kinsman, the Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam, became Sultan. 
The author of the Tarikh-i-Ffruz Shah-i (who follows the author of the Tabakat-i- 
Nasiri after a lapse of ninety-five years, however, but there is no contemporary writer 
between them), states, that, “ Sher Khan-i-Sunkar, who was the brother’s son of 
Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Balban, held charge of all the western frontier in the begin¬ 
ning of his reign, and held it up to the time of his own death, four or five years after. 
He says : This Sher Khan held charge of all the western frontier, Sunam, Lohowar 
[Lahor], Debal-pur, and other fiefs exposed to the Mughal inroads. See note 
farther on. 
47 Miscalled “ Beejnot,” in the maps. There is another place called Wanjh-rut, 
in Upper Sind, near the western channel of the Hakra and the old bed of the Biah, 
