196 H. G. Raverty —The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. [No. 3, 
The I stAkhar 1 says, “ Mansuriyah which is a city of Sind, is about 
a mil [mile] long and a mil broad, and is surrounded [part of the terri¬ 
tory dependent on it] by a branch of the Mihran [as shown in the map 
taken from the Masalik wa Mamalik], The inhabitants are Musalmans.” 
The Masalik wa Mamalik, with which work that of Ibn Haukal 
very nearly, but not altogether, agrees, states that, 11 Mansuriyah which 
they call Sindiyah, 103 is a city of Sind, about a mile long and a mile 
broad, and surrounded [i. e part of the territory dependent on it] by a 
branch of the Mihran. It is like an island. The people of Mansuriyah 
are Kureshis, the descendants of Habbar, son of Al-Aswad, who seized 
upon it; and, up to this time it is in the hands of his descendants. 
* * # The people in their dress and habits are like the people of ’Irak, 
but their Badshahs 104 are like Hindus in appearance, and have rings in 
their ears.” 
Bu-Rihan-al-Ber6ni enters into no particulars respecting this place, 
in this part of Rashid-ud-Dfn’s history, but, in his account of the rulers 
of Dillii, in another part, he says (as quoted by Rashid-ud-Din), that, 
“ previous to the time of the Samanis, Muhammad, son of Kasim, 
marched from the side of Sijis-stan into Sind, and subdued Bahman-no 
[ y+tf ], to which he gave the name of Mansuriyah, 105 and to Multan, 
Ma’muriyali.” 
Al-Idrisi says, on the contrary, that Mansuriyah was founded in the beginning of the 
Khilafat of Al-Mansur [Abu-Ja’far-al-Mansur], the ’Abbasi, the second Khalifah of 
that family, who did not succeed to the Khilafat until 136 H. (751 A. D.), some 
sixteen years after the time of Hakam and ’Amro (’Amr) and some four years after 
the overthrow of Mansur, son of Jamhur, the last Umaiyah Amir. 
It would appear from this, if all three writers are correct, that Mansuriyah was 
founded in Hakam’s time, finished in the time of Mansur, son of Jamhur, and the 
name merely continued by Abu-Ja’far-al-Mansur. Bahman-abad, or Bahman-nih, 
the Bahman-no of the Sindis, was founded centuries before, by Bahman, son of 
Isfandiyar, in the reign of Gushtasib, sovereign of f-ran-Zamin, who made conquests 
in the valley of the Indus, and western Hind, which were retained up to within a 
few years of the fall of the T-rani empire. See the following note 105, see also 
my “Notes on Afghanistan,” etc. pages 318 and 509. 
103 That seems to mean the Sindi Mansuriyah, or Mansuriyah of Sind, to distin¬ 
guish it from the other Mansuriyah. 
04 This word does not refer to sovereigns here, but to chiefs. See my “ Notes 
on Afghanistan,” page 154. 
:°5 g ee the extract from Bu-Rihan, page 219. This place, Bahman-abad or 
Bahman-nih, notwithstanding that more than one old author distinctly states by 
whom it was founded, European writers persist in calling “ Brahmanabad,” because 
it is incorrect, seemingly. 
A specimen of this dangerous system appears in Professor E. Sachau’s edition 
of the text of Bu-llffian’s work, printed at the expense of the India Office. At pages 
