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1892.] H. G. Raverfcy —The Mil trail of Sind and its Tributaries. 
it remains sticking in the branches of the trees [which are submerged 
during the inundations] and appears like the nests of birds in them. 
The united waters bend to the westward 162 from the city or town of Aror 
[jjf —the Aldor——of others] in the middle of the territory of 
Sind, and are received into the Nahr-i-Mihran or Mihran River, which 
flows slowly through the midst of the country, and forms a number of 
islands [i. e., the waters flow in several channels which again unite, and 
the lands between are islands] until the river reaches Mansuriyat 
[ as he always spells the word in the original]. This city is 
situated among the branches of the river, and from that place the river 
unites with the ocean by two channels. One is near the town of Lo- 
liarani [ ], 163 and the other bends round towards the east in the 
confines of Kaj [ Kachchh—], and is called the Sind Shakar 
[ A.<w—Sind-Sagarah— ‘A* ], which means The Sea of Sind. 
# # # The river Sarasat [ ] unites with the ocean to the east of 
Suminath.” 164 This last named river is, of course, the Saraswati, which 
162 This is not given in the printed text. 
163 In another place, Bu-Rihan, immediately after referring to Loharani at the 
mouth of the Nahr-i-Mihran, where it unites with the ocean, says, that, “ from 
Bazanah [ also and in other MSS., and in copies of Rashid-ud-Dfn’s 
work], between south and west, is the city of Anhal-warah [ and 
], distant sixty farsangs ; and from Suminath, on the sea, fifty. From Anhal- 
warah or Nahal-warah towards the south is Lao-des or Lar-des or ], 
the kasbahs [bazar towns] of which are Bahzuj or Bahruj [ -^5 or ], and 
Dhanjura or Rlianjura [ or ], distant forty-two farsangs. Both 
these places are on the sea-shore east of [ G r —Tana]. This is what Elliot 
reads “Baniya” at page 27, “ Bilha [Bania]” at page 37, “Bania” pages 39 and 
40, “Tana” and “Bhati” at page 61, and “Bania” at pages 77 and 79. From 
Bazanah to the west is Multan, fifty farsangs distant [a distance which will not suit 
Gnzarat] ; and from Bhati L ls* or cr* t? or tix ; for it is written in as 
many different ways] fifteen farsangs. From Bhati south-west [south-east in one 
copy] fifteen farsangs, is Aror, Arro, Aro, or l/dar [jjf “ jjf ~ J’f - ] meant, 
probably, for or [foreigners, it will be remembered, always leave out the & 
in Hindi words]. Bhati lies between two branches of the Sind Rud [not the Nahr- 
i-Mihran, it will be observed], thence twenty farsangs to Bahman-no Mansuriyat; 
and from thence to Lohai'ani, which is the mouth of the river [he mentions two 
mouths in the text above : this was the western mouth at that period] ; where it 
empties itself, is distant thirty farsangs.” Compare also Elliot, Vol. I, page 61, who 
says, at page 58, that this “ Naraya” as he read it, and which his Editor altered 
into Narana, is “ the capital of Guzerat,” but, in the original, the word is “ 
and ” i n different copies. 
164 See page 182. 
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