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1892.] II. G. Raverfcy— The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 
Zakariya, the Kazwini, saj^s very little respecting Multan in his 
“ A'sar-ul-Bilad,” but refers to what he had previously written from the 
“ ’Aja’ib-ul-Buldan,” which agrees generally with what others have 
written about it and its idol-temple. 
Ibn Al-Wardi-al-Karshi, who wrote between the years 668 H. and 
684 H. (1269 and 1285 A. D.), mentions Multan very briefly, but, like 
all others, he says it is called the 11 Far Ml [ ~\-i-Bait-uz-Zahab ”— 
The Temple containing the Receptacle or Vault of Gold.” 
Haying related what the old writers say about Multan and its 
‘ Far Ml,’ I will now turn to Mansuriyali as the next most important 
place connected with the courses of the rivers, and having completed 
that, I shall be better able to mention what they say respecting the 
rivers themselves, and the places lying along or near their banks. 
Ibn Khprdad-bih gives no particulars respecting it, and Al-Mas’udi 
says but little. He states that Multan is seventy-five farsangs of Sind, 
each farsang being eight mil [miles], distant from Mansuriyali." The 
villages and inhabited places dependent on Mansuriyali [the territory] 
amount to 300,000. The whole country is well cultivated, and covered 
with trees and fields. 100 It is constantly at war with a nation called 
Med, who are a race of Sind, and also with other races on the frontier 
thereof. Like Multan it is on the frontiers of Sind, 101 and so are the 
towns and villages belonging to it. Mansuriyali is so called from Man¬ 
sur, son of Jamliur, the Amir on the part of the Bani Umaiyah.” 102 
99 How then is it possible that Mansuriyali could refer to Bakhar as Abu-1-Fazl 
(and those who follow him) erroneously supposed ? This is the greatest error ever 
made by Abu-l-Fazl. See note 90, page 190. 
The Multan territory extended south as far as Alor or Aror; while the territory 
of Mansuriyah extended from and included Alor or Aror and its district southwards 
to the sea-coast. 
100 This may be somewhat highly coloured, but the lands along the course of 
the Mihran, and farther east along the banks of the Hakra or Waliindah, were 
remarkable for their fertility. See the “ Report on the Eastern Narra,” page 34, 
paragraph 3 ; 39, 7 ; and 40, 17. 
101 Others, more correctly, state, that it is in Sind, of which there is no possible 
doubt. 
102 It is strange that such discrepancy should exist respecting the foundation of 
this place. The Mansur here referred to is Mansur, son of Jamhiir, who was the 
last Amir of Sind on the part of the Bani Umaiyah, who was defeated by Musa, 
the son of Ka’ab-ut-Tamimi, who was despatched from Marw by Abu Muslim into 
Sind soon after he declared for the accession of the Bani ’Abbas to the Khilafat. 
See farther on. 
The Balaziri states (see farther on), that Hakam, Amir of Sind, about the year 
120 H. (738 A. D.), built Mahfuzah, and that ’Amro (’Amr) son of Muhammad, the 
unfortunate conqueror of Sind, who served under Hakam, founded Mansuriyali; while 
