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The old bed of the Chin-ab, or rather the most prominent, and 
probably most recent, of its former channels, can still be distinctly 
traced within three miles of Shor-Kot on the east and south to this day. 
At the period in question, and for sometime after, Shor-Kot was in the 
Chin-hath Do-abah, 263 as shown from the movements of the Mughal 
raiders, who yearly entered these parts up to the year 834 H. (1430-31 
A. D.); but, subsequently, on the Ohin-ab inclining farther towards the 
west, like the other three rivers east of it continued to do, it was shut 
out of that do-abah and transferred to the Rachin-ab Do-abah, in which 
it still continues, and lies some six miles east of the left or east bank of 
the united Ohin-ab and Bihat or Jihlam. These two rivers, at the time 
of Amir Timur’s invasion, had, for some time, separated from the Rawf 
and Blah, 269 and flowed on the west side of Multan, while the two latter 
still passed on the east as heretofore. More respecting them, and the 
great flood which devastated the whole northern Panj-ab territory, be¬ 
tween the Ohin-ab and the Sutlaj, anterior to the arrival of Timur in 
these parts, and the probable changes caused thereby, will be found in 
the account of the rivers farther on. 
Then as to the rivers farther east, let us take into consideration 
that Amir Timur’s forces, including followers, could not have been less 
than 80,000 or 100,000 persons, and as many horses ; and, that while 
he crossed from Ajuddhan to Bhatnir with 10,000, the more numerous 
portion, with the followers, baggage, and heavy materials of the army, 
crossed direct from Debal-pur to Mung Ala, and all re-assembled on the 
banks of the Ghag-ghar near Samanah. In doing this they must have 
crossed the beds of all the rivers but one tributary to the Hakra or 
Wahindah, including the old channels of the Sutlaj, whether they 
contained water or were dry; and it is strange, that, although Amir 
Timur must also have crossed the channel of the Sutlaj, whether it 
in possession of territory on the Bihat or Jihlam and the Chin-ab when Amir Timur 
crossed the Indus. See note 246, page 279, and a note farther on. 
There is an old saying, that, “ Shor is notorious for tumults, as Chandani-ot 
is for the quarrelsome proclivities of its inhabitants.” 
Cunningham, in his “ Ancient Geography of India,” “identifies” Shor Kot as 
“one of the towns of the Malli,” and with “the town of Po-lo-fa visited by Hwen 
Thsangand supposes the tradition current in the neighbourhood of its destruction 
by “ some king from the westward about 1300 years ago,” to be the “ White Huns.” 
We need not go quite so far back, and may leave the “ White Huns ” and “ Hwen 
Thsang” for what they are worth. 
263 Like the names of towns and villages, this do-abah appears in our maps 
under the incorrect names of “ Jech Doab” and “Jech Booab” and, certainly with¬ 
out the meaning of the word being understood, or how written in the original. See 
note 277, page 296. 
269 See page 291 and note 265, 
