1892.] H G. Raverty —The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. 241 
Muhammad, leaving a governor there, moved towards Aror and Baghrur, 
to be relied on; while the Cliach Namah, contains the relation of events generally 
from the statements of eye-witnesses of what they relate. 
As soon as Jai Senha, son of Dahir, reached Bahman-abad, he endeavoured to 
rouse his brother and kinsmen to oppose the invaders with energy, but without 
result: there was no combined effort made. Accordingly, he despatched letters to 
his brother Fuff, at the capital, Aror; to Chach, son of Darsiyah, Dahir’s nephew, 
who held Babiyah [the Pabiyah of Elliot before, but, now he makes it Bhatiya 
although there is no ‘ h ’ in it] on the south side of the river Biah [which was subse¬ 
quently held by Kaksah, son of Ohandar, Dahir’s uncle, according to the same 
authority] ; and to Dahol or Dahul, another son of Ohandar, w r ho held Nudiyah and 
Kai-kanan [the “ Kikan ” of the Balazari—tracts west of the Ab-i-Sind]. Muham¬ 
mad, son of Kasim, on the other hand, after the death of Dahir, and capture of 
Rawar, as before related, moved towards Bahman-abad, between which two places 
were two fortified towns Bahrur and Dhaliyah. The first offered obstinate resistance, 
and was only captured after two months’ investment, and the latter nearly as long, 
but without much opposition. The people, at last, finding they could not hold out, 
despatched their families from thence by the bridge over the Manhal [branch of the] 
river ; but, on the Musalmans becoming aware of it next day, they were pursued, 
and a great number slaughtered. Such as escaped made their way towards Hindu¬ 
stan by the Ramal territory [the tracts inhabited by the Bhati tribe], and the 
registdn, or sandy desert [evidently towards Jasal-mir, the feeders of the Hakra from 
the direction of Poh-karn, at that period, having ceased to flow], towards the terri¬ 
tory of Siro [Sirohi ? There is a “ Sero,” eighty-one miles above Bahman-abad, east 
of Sayyidah] of which Diw Ra [or Raj, as in Elliot] was ruler. He was the uncle’s 
son of Ra’e Dahir [and, consequently, must have been son of Ohandar]. 
Dhaliyah having been given up, Muhammad located there Nubah, son of Daharan, 
son of Dhaliyah, and charged him with the care and superintendence of boats [it 
appears to have been on the Puranah Dhorah branch of the Mihran of Sind] along 
the banks from that place to Dadahah-Tiyah [possibly Wadahah-Tiyah], which was 
a farsang [three miles] from Bahman-abad. [See Elliot, page 176.] Another march 
from Dhaliyah brought the ’Arab forces to the banks of the Jalwali Nahr [canal or 
minor channel] on the east side of Bahman-abad [which Elliot’s editor very wisely 
supposed was the “ Falalai,” which is only thirty-three miles south-ivest of Bahman- 
abad] and there they took up their position. 
Bellasis, in his interesting account of the ruins of Bahman-abad, which he 
discovered, appears even to have found what we may well suppose was the site of 
the ’Arab camp during the investment. He says : “ On my last visit to Brahman- 
abad, I made inquiry of an old cultivator if he had ever seen any of the round solid 
balls of pottery mentioned in my first paper. ‘ Sahib,’ rejoined the old man, ‘ come to 
the Top Khanah [arsenal], and I will show you plenty.’ I followed his guidance, 
and he led me outside the city rvalls, and across the dry bed of the river, and there, in 
the plain, sure enough were a number of these pottery balls. I could distinctly see 
the square heaps in which they had been piled in regular rows like round shot; 
and, scattered over the plain, numbers of single ones were to be found, slightly 
embedded in the soil. They were of various sizes, some as large as 12-pounder3, 
others about the size of billiard balls. The old man accounted for there being so 
many scattered about the plain by saying that in ancient times a great battle had 
