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1892.] H. G. Raverty— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. 
In the extracts from Abu-Rihan given by Elliot, I notice'events 
which are not mentioned by him, bnt by Rashid-ud-Din, and are not 
contained in Bu-Rihan’s text. It is the extract [at page 57] in which 
the latter is made to quote events which occured in 692 H. (i293 A. D.), 
about two hundred and sixty years after that author completed his 
work. 206 From this we might suspect, that even some of the extracts 
which I have given here from Rashid-ud-Dm’s work, which he appears 
to attribute to Bu-Rihan are his own, such for example as the mention of 
all the rivers of this part, with the Bi'dh north of the Bawi , uniting with 
“ the Satladar below Multan, at a place called Panch-Nad,” as already 
noticed in the extract from Bu-Rihan; but I shall presently show, that, 
for upwards of two centuries and more after the date above quoted 
[692 H.], the Sliuttlaj, that is the Sutlaj—if that is what he means by 
the Nahr-i-Sutlad' 206 —did not unite with the other rivers of the Panj-ab 
at the place indicated. 
The son of the Turk Sultan of Dihli, Grhiyas-ud-Din. Balban (the 
same who, under the title of Malik Grhiyas-ud-Din. Balban, conducted 
the army under Sultan ’Ala-ud-Din, Mas’ud Shah, to the relief of 
Uchchii in 643 H.—1245 A. D.), Muhammad by name, entitled Muham¬ 
mad Sultan, and subsequently styled the “ Khan-i-Shahid ” or “Mar¬ 
tyred Khan,” on the death of Malik Sher Khan-i-Sunkar, Balban’s 
kinsman, who is said to have founded Bhatnir 207 , or more probably 
A. D.), which was the year of his expedition to Somnath, when, on his return from 
thence he drove out the Karamitah ruler thereof. See note 192, page 244. 
205 it is the statement, that “ Multan and l /chch h are subject to Dihli, and the 
son of the Sultan of l)ihU is governor .” There were no Sultans of Dihli when Bu- 
Rihan wrote—428—430 H. (1020-1030 A. D.), and not for nearly two centuries after, 
the first being Kutb-ud-Din, T-bak, the Turk, in 605 H. (1208-9 A. D.) ; and there 
was never any Sultan’s son governor of these parts until the time of Muhammad 
Sultan, the Khan-i-Shahid, son of Sultan Grhiyas-ud-Din, Balban, the Ilbari Turk. 
Rashid-ud-Din completed his work twelve years after the date given in the text 
above, namely, in 710 H. (1310 A. D.). 
206 See page 220. In the MSS. of the A’in-i-Akbari, which I have examined, 
the name is written Shutlaj, but in Blochmann’s printed text it is “ Shattdur— 
OS JJy 
See the extract from Muir’s <c Sanskrit Texts” in the account of that river 
farther on. 
207 Malik Nusrat-ud-Din, Slier Khan-i-Suukar, referred to in note 45, page 171, 
is said by Ziya-ud-Din, Barani, to have built a loftly cupola or domed building at 
Bhatnir, and to have erected, among others, the fortresses of Bhatnir and Bhatindah. 
He held for a considerable time, off and on, the frontier provinces of the Dihli 
empire on the -west, or, rather, the provinces which still remained; for the traitor, 
Malik ’Izz-ud-Din Balban-i-Kashlu Khan, had betrayed Multan and U'chehh, and 
such part of Sind as he had held, by becoming a feudatory of the Muglials. 
