180 H. G. Raverty— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. [No. 3, 
wlio remember the time when the Biah first deserted its ancient bed, 
and the Sutlaj finally left its last independent channel, now known to 
the people as the “ Great I) an dab,” and the two nnited and formed the 
Hariari, Nili. or Gharah as they now flow. 
I certainly fail to see that because “ the Tartar chief, Kadar ” [a Mu¬ 
ghal, I presume, and Mughals are not Tartars, although both are branches 
of the Turks] “ came with an army from the Jud mountain in 695 A. H 
(A. D. 1296) and crossed the Jhelam, Beyah, and Satladar (Satlej) ” 
[which the writer just before said had “ merged into the Biyah ” fifty- 
two years previously, when the army marched from Dihli to relieve 
U'chchh] and was “ defeated near Jhalandar,” therefore “he must have 
crossed them above their junction” [the two latter, I presume, are 
meant, but three are named], The “ must ” here is merely to sup¬ 
port the previous theory that the Sutlaj had united with the Biah 
and flowed in the latter’s bed, which it never did do. This “ Tartar 
chief” could not have crossed the Sutlaj at all, to have been defeated 
near Jalhandar, 69 even after the Biah and Sutlaj had united into one 
stream and ran as it runs to this day, because, if he had crossed the 
Sutlaj from the west to the east bank, he would have passed out of the 
Jalhandar Do-abah, and have left Jalhandar some twenty-eight miles to 
the northward. That Do-dbah refers to the tract of country lying be¬ 
tween the Biah and the Sutlaj (in whatever direction they flowed, and 
may flow), which latter river now bounds it on the south. To reach 
that Do-dbah from the Koh-i-Jud, Namak-Sar, or Salt Range, the Ohin- 
ab and the Rawi would have to be crossed as well as the “ Jhelam ” and 
“ Beyah,” but not the “ Satladar (Satlej) and if it is a proof, because 
the Sutlaj is “ not mentioned ” by the author of the “ Tabakat-i-Nasiri ” 
on the occasion of the investment of U'chchh, that it must have “ merged 
into the Biyah,” we might just as well say that it is a proof that the 
Chin-ab and Rawi had merged into the Jhilam, or some other river, 
lie is rather deaf, but otherwise seems in wonderful health for his wonderful age. 
# # # His descendants number eighty persons—children, grandchildren, and 
great-grand children,—who take great care of him. The old mau’s memory is, of 
course, somewhat gone ; but as a proof of his age he says he can remember the drying 
up of the Bias [Biah], which is supposed to have occurred some hundred years ago” 
“ Allen’s Indian Mail,” January 21st, 1889. 
When Wilford wrote his remarkable “ Essays,” showing that he was far in 
advance of his time, and Rennell published his “ Memoir on a Map of Hindoostan,” 
in 1788, the Biah and Sutlaj had not yet united and formed the Hariari, Nili, or 
Gharah, but they did so very shortly after. 
69 Abu-1-Fazl always writes it Jalandhar. The Survey account I shall presently 
refer to has the name as above. The correct name of this do-dbah is Bist-Jalhandar, 
and it was also known as Sehir-Wal. 
