184 H. G. Raverfcy— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. [No. 3, 
1796 ” ; and that “ since then the lands on the banks of the old Jttyas 
became waste.” 74 
If these last statements are correct, then the former one, that, 
when the Mn glia Is raised the siege of Uchchh in 1245 A. D., “ the 
allusion is to the united streams , the Satlej having become merged into the 
Biyah ,” is incorrect; as must likewise be the statements, that, after this 
siege of TJqhqhh, “ armies inarching from Dehli to Multan were obliged to 
abandon the direct route by Marot, in consequence of the disappearance of 
the Hakra” which we are now told “ is no other than the Satlej or 
Naewal and that afterwards, they “ always took the road by Abohar 
and Ajodhan must be equally wrong, since the writer adds, that “ the 
74 Mirza S]iah Husain, the Arghun Mughal ruler of Sind, after gaining possession 
of I J chcli h in 931 H. (1524-25 A. D.), and destroying its defences, marched from 
thence towards Multan, and reached the banks of the Gharah ; and the Langah Jats 
of Multan took post on the banks, and there awaited his attack. 
This clearly shows that the Biah and Sutlaj had then, in Mirza Shah Husain’s 
day, already united above Firuz-pur, and become the Hariarf, Dandah, or 1STurni, as 
afterwards described by Abu-l-Fazl. But they soon separated again, and each re¬ 
sumed its former name, the only difference being that an intermediate, but very 
minor branch remained, called the Dandali. After flowing apart for about one 
hundred kuroh, they again united and formed the Gharah, as described in note 66, 
page 178, and in the notice of the rivers farther on ; for, until they again united in 
the south-western part of the then Multan territory of the Langah Jats, there was 
no Gharah. The latter, however, was not then as it subsequently became, and now 
is, because it then passed some miles east of the site on which Bahawal-pur now 
stands, and also east of U'chchh, to unite with the Ab-i-Sind, or Indus. 
Mirza Shah Husain, moreover, is stated to have made peace with the Langah 
ruler of Multan, on the stipulation, that the Gharah, in future, should form the 
boundary between the Multan territory and Sind, and that all to the southwards of 
the Gharah should belong to Sind. The point where the two rivers again united 
after flowing apart, will be found in the account of Ibrahim Husain Mirza’s capture 
farther on. 
It is further mentioned that Mirza Shah Husain attacked the fortress of Dir-awar 
(since become the chief stronghold of the Da’ud-putrah chiefs of Bahawal-pur), which 
through ( l’ and 1 r ’ being interchangable in these parts, is also called at times 
Dil-tiwar and Dir-awal, and that he had to take a month’s supply of grain and water 
sufficient for his forces along with him, because it was “ situated in a desert tract, so 
that even the birds of the air were afraid to glance at it.” This place is close to 
the west bank of the deserted Hakra or Wahindah, about fifty miles south-south¬ 
west of Bahawal-pur. This statement also shows that the Sutlaj had then ceased 
to be a tributary of the Hakra as it had hitherto been, and that by the Sutlaj uniting 
with the Biah, both rivers, under the new names of GMrah, etc., had become tribu¬ 
taries of the Ab-i-Sind or Indus. 
The above information I may mention is from Mir Ma’sum of Bakhar, the 
historian of Sind, who wrote as far back as near the close of the reign of Akbar 
Badshah. 
