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about one hundred and twenty square farsangs , each farsang being equal 
to eight mil [miles]. 118 Tin’s Malik has four armies, according to the 
four cardinal points, each consisting of 700,000 or 900,000 men [!]. 
The south army defends the territory from the Balhari, Malik of Mankir 
[before stated to be Malik of Hind] : while that of the north is for the 
purpose of carrying on war with the Malik of the territory of Multan 
[consequently, it, Kinnauj here referred to, must be south of Multan], 
and with the Musalmans, his subjects, who are established on that 
frontier ; while the other two armies are sent wherever an enemy shows 
himself.” 
“ When all these rivers [five are referred to] have passed the 
“ Gate of the Bait or Receptacle of Gold,” or Multan, they unite between 
it and Mansuriyali 119 into one stream, at a place called Dosh-i-Ab 120 [lit. 
Meeting-place of Waters, or Waters-Meet, from the Tajzik or Persian 
‘ dosh ’—‘meeting,’ ‘ coming into contact,’ etc.], which flows towards 
the town of Alror or Aldor—], 12L which lies on its western 
bore, until it finally emptied itself into the ocean. The Ab-i-Sind or Indns, with 
its affluents was one tributary, and the Biah, with its affluents, the Rud-i-Sind wo 
Hind as it is called, another, which united with the Hakra or Wahindah and its 
affluents, and formed the Mihran of Sind as above described. Consequently, the 
Ab-i-Sind or Indus, and the Rud-i-Sind wo Hind, were really tributaries of the 
Hakra or Wahindah ; for, after the Ab-i-Sind or Indus deserted the other, it still 
remained the Mihran of Sind ; and this is borne out by the statements of all the 
’Arab and native writers, as will herein appear. See note 156, page 218. 
118 A vast area truly ! Even if we compute it at 44 square farsangs of 8 miles 
each, 26,600 square miles is the result. The farsang generally was about three mil, 
each mil being equal to 4,000 gaz, the farsang being 12,000, and each guz being equal 
to 24 fingers’ breadth measured sideways, or six clenched fists. The Sindi farsang , 
it will be noticed, is stated to be eight mil. See note 90, page 190. 
119 Tod, Yol. II, page 229, note to “ Arore,” says : “ The remains of this once 
famous town I had the happiness to discover by means of one of my parties in 1811.” 
Any one, unacquainted with the history of these parts, would imagine from this, 
that its site had remained unknown up to the period of this wonderful discovery— 
“on the island of Bekher,” where Aror never stood. 
120 The place of junction here referred to lay near to Sahib Garh and Baghlah of 
the present day, about seventy-two miles south-west of Lf ohch h. When the Mas’udi 
wrote, the branch of the Hakra which flowed past Aror on the east, had not, accord¬ 
ing to the tradition, been as yet diverted. Elliot’s editor (Yol. 1, p. 23), unacquaint¬ 
ed with the meaning of ‘ dosh,’ supposed it to be “ Duab,” as he writes Do-abah. 
121 The ‘ al ’ in this word, as here written, and by all the old geographers, is 
not, and must not be mistaken for, the ’Ai'abic article al, because the name Alor or 
Aror was the Hindi name centuries before the Musalmans had any acquaintance 
with it, and it may be, and is, written and styled Aror, with ‘ ar ’ as well as with 
<ai: 
The derivation of the word Rurhi is evidently derived from the Sanskrit ^3"— 
