1892.] H. G. Raverty —The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. 219 
Another copy quoted by Elliot has : “ The Chand Rud is also a 
great and pleasant [ ] river on whose bank is the city or town of 
Chand Rud. It falls into the Mihran below the Sind Rud towards the 
territory of Mansurah.” This, however, does not agree with three other 
MS. copies which I have used, but agrees with the Masalik wa Mamalik 
just quoted; and, for a town “ Chand Bud ” is an impossible name, and 
must refer to the river, or a town situated thereon. 
Bu-RiHAN-AL-BERdm, says, after noticing the junction of the river 
of Kabul with the “ Nahr-i-Sind : ” “ The river Biliat, called Jihlam, on 
the west, unites with the Ab-i-Chandra [the Chand Rud of Ibn Haukal 
before noticed] at Jharawar ] 1B8 or Jhara Rud [ <i^y^or ] 
Jandrahah [ J nearly fifty mil [miles] above Multan, and flows 
past it on the west. Then the Ab-i-Biah [!] increases it [by uniting 
with them] from the east. Then the Trawah [ —the Rawah of the 
Tabakat-i-Nasiri—the Rawi] joins them. The Nahr-ul-Kaj [or Gaj—■ 
—in one copy Laj—^ 159 —the upper stroke of the unbeing left out, 
but that letter may be mistaken for J if not marked thus ] branches off 
from the Nahr-ul-Kut [ jd which issues from the mountains of 
Bahatil [ ], and joins them, after which the Nahr-i-Shutlad [ 
or Shutladr ] unites with them below Multan at a place called 
Panoh Nad.” 160 
153 In one place in his text, Bu-Rihan says the Sind is called Wahind; that 
or re fers to the Ohandar Bhag—the Chandar-Bhaga or Chin-ab_ 
that the Biah flows to the west of Lohawar, and the Lrawah—the Rawah or Raw!_ 
on the east of Lohawar. 
The Biah never yet flowed west of Lahor, within “ the range of history,” but 
the Rawi has, but not very far west of it. It will be seen how he has reversed 
matters. In another place, as in the text above, he makes the Biah unite with the 
Ohin-ab above or north of the Rawi, again reversing facts. 
159 His Nahr-ul-Kaj or Gaj, and Nahr-ul-Kut or Gut can only refer to those 
tributaries of the Hakra or Wahindah which came from the hills east of Jasal-mir 
in early times, noticed farther on. In the recently published printed text, in place 
of this Nahr-ul-Kut we have Naghar Kof— 
The letter here written £ may be meant for g. Bahatil is the Haf.il of Mas’udf. 
See page 206, 7. 
160 Professor Sachau indexes these two simple Hindi words in his printed text 
of “ Alberuni,” under the meaningless form of “ Pdncanada and translates the 
above passage as “ a place called Pdncanada ” ! A person who had to depend on 
his translation would suppose Bu-Rihan had so written it. 
The author of the ‘'Lost River” article in the “ Calcutta Review ” appears, 
from the following, to have had a confused idea of the Panj Ab or Panch Nad He 
says (page 14): “ Thus, too, is solved the difficulty in providing a place for the 
Satlej among the five branches of the “ Panjnad,” which has compelled modern 
geographers to transfer that name from the Indus to the Chinab [!]. The latter has 
