1892.] H. G. Raverty —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 263 
of the southern parts, used often to make incursions into the tracts held 
by the Mughals and their tributaries farther west. His son and suc¬ 
cessor, Sultan Muhammad Shah, when about to enter Lar or Lower Sind 
from Guzarat towards the close of 751 H. (about January, 1351 A. D.), 
in order to punish the Sumrahs of that part for sheltering rebels from 
his dominions, gave directions for boats to be collected from all parts, 
from Siw-istan [but not Siwi nor “ Sebi ” 21S ], from U'chchh, Multan, and 
other parts, at Debal-pur, to enable him to convey his troops across the 
Sind river. To have directed boats to be collected at Debal-pur after the 
Biah had deserted its old bed would have been simply ridiculous, since, 
by that desertion, it left Debal-pur some twenty-three miles farther 
west. From the above facts it is beyond a doubt, that, at that period 
also, the Biah still flowed in its old bed, and no Sutlaj had united 
with it. 
In 734 H. (1332 A. D.), the Moorish traveller, Ibn Batutah, crossed 
from Multan to Dihli, about eighty years after the investment of 1/chohh 
by the Mughals ; twenty-eight years before Sultan Firuz Shah brought 
his first canal to Mansur-pur and Samanah; and sixty-seven years before 
the invasion of Amir Timur, the Gurgan. Ibn Batutah proceeded by 
way of Ajuddhan and Uboh-har, and would have had to cross the Biah 
as Amir Timur subsequently did, before reaching the former place, and 
the Sutlaj after leaving the latter, and soon after the different tributaries 
of the Hakra higher up. He says, after noticing that Ajuddhan was 
a small place, “ The first city we entered belonging to Hindustan 214 
[here he is perfectly right, the river was the boundary between the 
Multan province and Hindustan] was Uboh-har, 216 which is the first 
place in Hind in this direction. It is small and closely built [it was a 
walled town with a fort], and abounds with water and cultivation. * * * 
At length I left the town of Uboh-har, and proceeded for one day 
through a desert enclosed on both sides by hills [low, rocky hills], 216 
upon which were infidels and rebellious Hindus. The inhabitants of 
Hind generally are infidels; some of them live under the protection of 
213 See a note farther on. 
214 The reason why he says this is that the Multan province extended, at the 
period in question, to the Sutlaj, which then flowed in the Uboh-har channel, and 
was still a tributary of the Hakra or Wahindah. 
215 This name is written “ Abohar,” and “ Abuhar,” and the like in MSS., but 
it was founded by Janra, grandson of Rajah Rasalu, the Bhati', and named after his 
wife, Uboh, and therefore Uboh-har is the correct name. The termination, ‘ har * 
occurs in the names of many places where the Bhati tribe dwell, or previously dwelt, 
and refers to standing water, or where water is found. 
216 These are the rocky hills lying immediately south of Tohsham, south of 
Hansi, and the former place stands on the northern skirt of part oC them. 
