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wlio was at Debal-pur at the time, advanced into the khittah or district 
of Ajuddhan to meet him; and a battle was fought between them on the 
9th of Rajab of that year, near the banks of the Bahindah [ ] or 
Wahindah [ 4 b,’ and ‘ w ’ being interchan gable. In this word 
the j, in MSS. is liable to be mistaken for and j, and vice versa ], in 
which Taghi Khan was overthrown and fled to Uboh-har.” Here we 
have one of the names of the Hakra, but, most unfortunately, the writer 
did not think it necessary to say whether it contained water or not, but, 
from the manner in which he relates these events, it would appear that 
it did contain water, or he would have mentioned such an important 
matter. It is very certain that large bodies of troops could not have 
moved about in those parts so continually unless there had been suffi¬ 
cient water for them. It is also proved beyond a doubt, that, at this 
time, the Sutlaj 240 flowed between Uboh-har and Ajuddhan, about sixteen 
miles from the former, and nearly double that distance from the latter 
place; while we know, from subsequent events, that the Biah still 
flowed in its old bed. 
Nearly five years after the events above related, in Muharram, 808 
H. (July, 1405 A. D.), Ikbal Khan, brother of Sarang Khan, chief rival 
of Khizr Khan, in the struggle for power among the feudatories of the 
Tughluk dynasty, marched against Samanah, and afterwards moved 
towards Multan, and arrived at Tal-wandi. From thence he reached 
the banks of the Wahindah or Bahindah, in the direction of the khittah 
of Ajuddhan (i. e., the district depending on it), and was encountered 
in that direction. Indeed, Abu 1-Fazl says that the Labor sub ah extended on the 
south to the frontier of Bikanir. 
On the other hand, he describes the subah of Ajmir as extending to the sarkdrs 
of Multan and Debal-pur of the Multan subah ; and one of the sarkdrs of Ajmir 
was that of Bikanir, consisting of eleven mahalls or districts, of which Jasal-mir, 
Bikam-pur, Birsil-pur, Pugal, Bikanir, and others, adjoined the Debal-pur and Multan 
sarkdrs in the other direction; consequently, everxj 'portion is filled up, and the so- 
called “ neutral ground ” is as unsubstantial and illusive as the mirage which prevails 
on the borders of these subahs. The error appears to have occurred through not 
knowing that both sarkdrs of Debal-pur and Multan extended eastwards to the 
ancient bed of the Hakra or Wahindah, and, farther north-east-wards, to the banks 
if the Sutlaj as it flowed in its old channel. As to its being so little known in the 
time of Akbar Badshah see ante note 236, page 273. 
840 This, its last deserted, independent channel, is now known as “ the great 
dandah” The author of the Survey I have been quoting in this paper, says, that, 
“ The people of this part apply the term dandah or dandd to the south or left bank of 
the Sutlaj. See the notice of that river farther on, but, I may observe that dandah 
——is differently written from Wahindah— —or Bahindah— referred 
to in the text above, and must not be confused the one for the other. 
