268 H. G. Raver ly— The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries . [No. 4, 
Sursuti might be brought to the nadir in question, and, when united, 
might flow on to Sahrind, Mansur-pur, and Samanah.” 
’Abd-ul-Kadir, the Buda’uni, one of the authors of the Tarikh-i-Alfi 
above mentioned, says in his history of India, that “ the water is that 
which issues from a mound or hill of a sandy nature, of considerable 
size, and which water falls into the nadir or stream of the Sutlaj, which 
is also called the Suttladr,” and that it—the water falling into’the 
Sutlaj—is called the Sursuti; ” that “it was distributed by means of 
two canals, and used to flow by Sahrind, Mansur-pur, and Samanah. The 
whole of the mound or hill was not removed.” It was, perhaps, merely 
cut through sufficiently to permit the water to pass freely. 
“ While employed in these excavations, the bones of elephants and 
human beings were discovered in this great mound or hill, among which 
were their arms [dast —the hand, including the arm to the elbow], mea¬ 
suring three gaz in length, some of which were petrified, but the rest 
still remained unchanged. 228 It was represented to the Sultan, that, 
when Sikandar [Alexander the Great] reached that place, the people, 
having made images of Nushabah, 229 used to keep them in their dwell¬ 
ings and worship them ; and that, now [in the time of Sultan Firuz 
Shah], her image had become the deity worshipped by the people of 
these parts.” 
Sultan Firuz Shah, likewise, when proceeding towards Debal-pur 
on a hunting excursion in 756 H. (1355 A. D.), “determined,” it is 
said, “on opening a canal from the Suttladr (Sutlaj) to Jhajhar, a 
distance of forty-eight Jcuroh ,” or about eighty-four miles. Here there 
must be some error in the names, because the Sutlaj where it issues 
from the hills at Ruh-par, its nearest point to Jhajhar, is about one 
hundred and seventy miles, and the nearest of its old channels to the 
west—the easternmost “ Nyewal N.” of the maps, is one hundred and 
forty miles to the westward of Jhajhar. Consequently, if Jhajhar is 
correct, the Sutlaj cannot be meant, and if the Sutlaj is meant, then 
some other place than Jhajhar must be meant, to which it would have 
been far easier to have brought water from the Yamunah. 
228 “ Being therefore unresolved what course to take, he [Alexander] leaped 
from the tribunal, and shut himself up in his tent, forbidding any to be admitted, 
except those with him. Thus he sacrificed two days to his passion, and on the third 
he appeared publicly again, and ordered twelve altars to be erected of square stone 
to remain as a monument of his expedition. He also caused the fortifications of 
his camp to be extended, and beds to be left of a larger size than the ordinary stature 
of man required , designing to impose upon posterity by this excessive outward ap¬ 
pearance of things” “Quintus Curtius.” More respecting these altars will be men¬ 
tioned farther on. 
229 Nushabah is the name of the ancient queen of Bar da 5 , in Shirwan. on the west 
bank of the river Kur. 
