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I will now relate what these writers say respecting the rivers, and 
the places on or near their banks. 
All that Ibn Khurdad-bih ga y g ^ that, “from Barmasir ] 107 
to Dehal is eight days’ jonrney ; and from Debal to the junction of the 
river Mihran with the ocean is two farsangs. 1 ’ 
Al-Mas’ljdI says: “ The Mihran of Sind issues from sources well 
known, situated in the holiistdn or mountain tracts of Sind, the country 
p 
of Kinnauj, the territory of Budah [ tzp —or —Bauudah in one 
MS.], the territory of Kash-mir, and Kandhar [Kandharah or Kan- 
dharo ?], 109 and Tafan [ —Takin—also —Tafin— anc ^ in 
some MSS., which may he At-Tafah, or At-Takah, or even At-Takar], 
and flows on towards Multan, where it receives the name of “ Mihran of 
Gold,” the same as the word Multan signifies [!] the “ Frontier of 
Gold.” 110 * * * 
“ From Multan the Mihran takes its course through the country of 
Mansuriyah, 111 and near the territory of Debal falls into the sea. * * * 
It forms many inlets and creeks, such as the creek or estuary of Sind- 
bur or Sand-bur [ j>yjAW>—Sand-pur ?] in the country of Bagliir — 
Waghir, ‘ b ’ and ‘ w ’ being interchangeable] 112 * * * 
“ The Malik of Hind is the Balhari [ ] ; and the Malik of 
Kinnauj, who is one of the Maliks of Sind, is Budah [ —or Bauudah 
—or Baruzah, fyj ,—or Nauwarah —in as many different 
i°7 In the text of M. C. Barhier de Meynard this name is written Narmashirat 
( ); and in Elliot’s extracts from the same anthor, it is “ Narmasira.” 
The name in Ibn Hankal is as I have given it above ; and it is a well known town of 
Kirman, and is repeatedly mentioned down to modern times. 
103 Thus in the original, but Elliot (p. 21), turns it into “ Banura,” and renders 
the rest of the passage as follows : “and from Kashmir, Kandahar, and Tafan ; and 
at length running into [sic.] Multan, it receives the name of Mihran of gold, just as 
Multan means boundary of gold.” Did they find a “ house of gold” in the river too ? 
109 Not Kandahar certainly, eight degrees farther west, which was not known by 
that name at the period in question : it was then styled Bal-yus. 
110 The word ^ j Xl —meadow—is also, without doubt, a mistake for It was 
probably written without points in the original copy of the text quoted, and that 
farTch is meant, the statements which follow fully confirm. See note 97. 
HI Mas’udi must be wrong, of course, although he visited these parts in 331 H. 
(942-43 A. D.), and wrote from personal observation ; for does not Tod, who was 
never there, tell us in his “ Rajas’than,” that “ the remains of the ancient fortress 
of Mansoora are on the island of Bekher” P See note 105, page 204. 
112 See Burnes’ “ Travels,” vol. I, page 308. There was an old fort hereabouts, 
swallowed up during the earthquake of 1819, called Sindri or Sandri. It lay on the 
east or Ka chch h side of the estuary of the Hakra, Wahindah, or Sind-Sagar. 
