1892.] H. G. Raverty— The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 291 
the Chin-ab, that is the Bihat or Jihlam 265 and the Chin-ab united, two 
huroh south of the Kasbah of Neko-kari, now shortened to Ko-kari, 266 near 
where the hamlet known as Jaso ke stood, but which has now disap¬ 
peared. The ferry over it, which appears now to have been abandoned, 
was known as the Jaso ke Patan; and there was another at Neko-kari 
above, likewise, called the Neko-kari or Ko-kari Patan, the routes from 
which ferries led by Shor Kot to Tulanbah. The crossing place was, 
certainly, not far off, but it was nearer four huroh than two south of 
Neko-kari. 
Thus we find from the foregoing, that, at the time of Amir Timur’s 
invasion of Hind, the Jihlam and Chin-ab united not far from Shor, or 
Shor-Kot, which is an ancient site, and was inhabited by Langah Jats. 
It was, in the time of Akbar Badshah, a considerable town, the chief 
place of the mahall of that name, and where the Daro gh ah was located. 
It had been in ancient times a large and important walled-town, but it 
has been in a state of desolation for a long period of time. When I last 
saw it in 1850, the mound on which the old place stood, was covered 
with extensive ruins, and surrounded with the remains of a wall of burnt 
bricks; and it was of sufficient elevation to be prominently seen for 
several miles round about. I believe it to be the site of the very fortress 
near, or in the fork between the confluence of the two rivers, more 
particularly since there is no trace of any other old fortress in the 
neighbourhood near where the confluence of the two rivers anciently 
took place. Shor. I may mention, means ‘ noise,’ ‘ tumult,’ 1 agitation ’ 
or * commotion of water,’ etc., but that is a Persian or Tajzik word, and 
we might expect to find it called by a Hindi name. 267 I merely mention 
the coincidence. 
265 Both the historian, it must be remembered, and Amir Timur, himself, al¬ 
ways call the Wihat or Bihat or Jihlam river, the Jamad. 
266 This Kasbah, which appears in our maps as “ Nee Kokaruh,” and “ NeeJco- 
liar ah,” no two maps being alike, at the time of the Survey referred to above, was 
peopled by Sayyids; and in a grove of trees, a little to the south-east thereof, is the 
grave of the Sayyid, ’Abd-ullah-i-Jahanian, of the U’chchh family of Bukhara 
Sayyids, apparently; and he is held in such veneration that they would not even use 
the dead wood of the trees for fire-wood. The defunct was a man of such great 
neko-kari —that is, benevolence and goodness—-that the place was named, after him, 
the kasbah of the Neko-kari, but which, through constant use became shortened to 
Ko-kari. 
267 Unless, as is not improbable, the fact of these parts having been under 
Muhammadan rulers, who used the Tajzik language, certainly for four centuries 
before the appearance of Amir Timur in this neighbourhood, if not from the occu¬ 
pation of Multan by the ’Arabs, seven centuries before his time, was the cause of 
the Hindi name (if it ever had one: the additional “ Kot” is comparatively modern) 
being discontinued, One of the descendants of the ’Arab tribe of Tammim was still 
