1892.] H. G. Raverty —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 267 
The Sultan made great endeavours, according to the same writer, 
to supply the place and lands around with water. He succeeded in 
doing so by means of two canals—one from the river Jun or Yamunah, 
and one from the bed of the Sutlaj, and which was again connected with 
that river lower down. This is important, as showing that the Sutlaj 
must, at that period, have been running very much farther to the east¬ 
ward than in later years, and much nearer to the Firuzah Hisar, and about 
mid-way (in the Uboh-har channel) between that place and the Blah, 
which we are certain still flowed in its old bed. These canals were the 
Rajlrah and Aghamani. They were brought from the northward of 
Karnal, aud flowed a distance of eighty kuroh to the Firuzah Hisar. 227 
This is about the first time, if not the very first time, that the Sutlaj 
is mentioned in the Muhammadan histories of India by a contemporary 
writer. After the new town and hi§dr were finished, and water supplied, 
this part was separated from the district of Sahrind, formed into a 
separate one, and named the district of Hisar-i-Firuzah, that is, of, or 
dependent on the Hisar of Flruz Shah. 
The Tarikh-i-Alfi, written in the reign of Akbar Badshah, and com¬ 
piled from the best histories then available in India, says, that “ In 
the year 762 H. (1360-61 A. D.), the Sultan set out for a nadir or stream 
which is called Astimali, which really embraced two considerable streams, 
and contained never failing water, and between which a high pushtah — 
a spur or hill—intervened. The Sultan set 5,000 belddrs or pioneers to 
work in order to remove this obstruction; so that the waters of the 
still stands within the walls. The lath, also erected by him, is still visible among 
“ the mounds and broken bricks and tiles, which lie scattered profusely on the plain 
to the south of the modern city, and tombs and temples still remain standing to tell 
of by-gone splendour. These remains cover a wide area.” 
227 Firishtah (the often quoted, because translated)—the original, I mean, not 
“Dow,” nor “Briggs”—says: “In 762 H., Sultan Firuz Shah heard, that near 
Haradwar, there was a hill [ pushtah or TcoK] out of which water flowed towards the 
river Sutlaj, and that it was called Sursuti; that, on the other side of the hill was a 
rivulet [ju’e] called Salimah; and, that, if this intervening hill were removed, the 
Sursuti would be able to flow and unite with the Salimah rivulet, and their waters 
might be made to flow on to Sahrind, and Mansur-pur, and from thence to Sunam, 
and would keep constantly flowing. The Sultan accordingly [after cutting a canal 
separating the Sahrind district from that of Samanah, and founding Firuz-abad, a 
totally different place from the Firuzah Hisar, which is upwards of sixty miles to 
the east-south-east of Firuz-abad], proceeded to carry this into effect.” 
Firishtah is merely a servile compiler; and, as every one knows who can read 
the originals from which he copied, copied others almost word for word. This may 
be judged of from the following note 230. The Tarikh-i-Alfi supplies him with a 
deal of information, as well as the Tabakat-i-Akbari, especially regarding the events 
happening out of Hind \ and he copies both almost word lor word. 
