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1892.] H. G. Raverty —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 
When Pit Muhammad-i-Jaban-gir, that is, Pn* Muhammad, son of 
Mirza Jahan- gir, son of Amir Timur, attacked the reinforcements from 
Multan sent to the relief of L r chohh which he was investing, he fell upon 
them at Tamtamah ^ ) or Tantanah ( ) on the banks of 
the Biah. Many perislied by the sword, and many threw themselves 
into the Biah, and were drowned, and but a remnant of the force sent 
from Multan under Taj-ud-Din, Muhammad, succeeded in reaching that 
place again. 
I have compared three or four good copies of the Zafar Namali 
respecting Amir Timur’s march from Bannu across the Indus to Multan 
and Dihli, which lay through some of the very parts in which these vast 
changes in the courses of the rivers occurred, and the following is the 
result, omitting the operations by the way. 
Leaving the banks of the Sind, so called in the Zafar Nam ah, and 
having crossed it at the same place where the Sultan, Jalal-ud-Din, 
Mang-barni, plunged in, Amir Timur marched to the river which, in 
that history, is called the Jamad—the Bihat or Jliilam, which flowed 
towards ITchchh. Proceeding downwards along its banks, he reached 
the banks of the Ohin-ab, Chandra Bliaga, or Chin-ao, as it is also 
called, at, or near a fort, opposite to which the Jamad and Chin-ao met, 245 
and was astonished at beholding the waves, eddies, and whirlpools 
caused by the meeting of these two great rivers, or, as they are called in 
the history, seas. A bridge of boats had to be constructed ; and, having 
passed over, 2 ^ he inarched downwards, and encamped on the river [the 
245 See a note farther on. 
246 The Malfuzat says, that he halted that day and the next to enable the 
troops, materials, and baggage to cross. 
In following Amir Timur’s movements, the former channels of the rivers should 
be remembered; not traced according to their present courses. See the general 
map. 
From whence these boats were obtained is not said, but, as Shihab-ud-Din, 
Mubarak Shah? the Tammxmi, Hakim of the “jazi'rah,” or do-abah or bet, or terri¬ 
tory between two rivers—for the meaning of jazi'rah is not an island only—after 
his night attack upon the Mughals, who had appeared before Bliaiah, his capital (also 
written Bharah, the “ Bherah” of the maps) and his defeat, endeavoured to escape 
from thence by dropping down the Jamad, Bihat, or Jihlam towards U'chchh, with a 
fleet of two hundred boats or vessels, which he had collected, and most of which 
were captured before he had gone very far, it is probable that these captured boats, 
or a portion of them, furnished the means for constructing this bridge. By the time 
Shihab-ud-Din, Mubarak Shah, with the remainder, reached the vicinity of Multan, 
the Mughals were ready to receive him on both banks to prevent his passing down. 
He first threw his wife and children overboard, and then took to the water himself, 
most of his followers who could do so following his example, and escaped to the 
jangals along the banks. Every boat was captured or sunk, the fugitives were pur¬ 
sued iuto the jangals, and many were killed. 
