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1892.] H. G. Raverty —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 
contained water or not, between Ajuddhan and IOialis Kotlah, the 
Gliag-gliar is the only river mentioned by name between the Biali and 
Samanah. At the same time, although a chid or waste tract is men¬ 
tioned between Khalis Kotlah and Bhatnir, there is no mention of other 
chiils, neither is there the least allusion to any scarcity of water, 
and of which such large bodies of troops and animals must have 
required a considerable quantity. I have estimated the number of 
Amir Timur’s forces at a low figure, and have reason to suppose that 
they weie much more numerous; for it cannot be supposed that he 
would have invaded Hindustan, intent on reaching Dihli, at the head 
of a smaller number. In recent times, say in the last century, it would 
have been a dangerous experiment, if not an impossible matter, to 
take such a numerous army in two bodies by these routes. 271 While 
there is no mention on the part of the historian that the beds of 
these rivers were passed, or that any rivers had dried up, or were 
running, at the time—a matter much to be regretted—but as no scarcity 
is mentioned, and the halting places were merely the ordinary ones, 
and not specially chosen, we must conclude that there was water in 
the beds of some of these rivers (including the Hakra), but not suffi¬ 
ciently deep as to require remark in crossing them. 
Let us now see what the A’m-i-Akbari says respecting the Ab-i- 
Sind and other rivers, and the Do-abahs and Subahs of the Panj-ab 
territory and parts adjoining it on the east, after which I will give some 
extracts from the Survey made of these parts about a century since, to 
which 1 have before alluded. 
“ The Subah of Labor,” he says, “ extends from the Sutlaj [not the 
Gliarah or Hariliari, bat higher uj3 : above the present junction of the Biah 
and Sutlaj] to the Ab-i-Sind, a distance of one hundred and eighty huroh 
in length, and from Bhimbar to Ohaukhandi, 272 a dependency of Sat Garh, 
£71 The Sayyid, ’Abd-ullah Shah, who, with only a small following, when he 
was despatched to Kabul in 1780-81 by Governor Hastings, found the route from 
Bikanlr by Phugal and Moj Garb to U'chchh, sufficiently difficult. He lost a son, 
and a number of his people, between Bikanir and l/chch. The Hon’ble Monntstuart 
Elphinstone also passed by the same halting places on his way to Kabul, but he went 
to Bahawal-pur from Moj Garh. 
I hope shortly to give the Sayyid, Ghulam Muhammad’s account of his father’ 
mission and his own to Kabul in his own words. See note 249, page 282. 
272 Ohaukhandi was a mahdll of the Rachin-ab Do-abah of the Multan sarkdr of 
the Multan subah, and belonged to the KharT Jats. It is now an insignificant place, 
and at this time is in the Bari Do-abah, showing how places have been changed from 
one do-abah to another, fourteen miles E. N. E. of the town of Hurappah, and about 
a mile from the south or left bank of one of the old channels of the Rawi, three miles 
and a half from the high bank farther south-east. It appears in the maps as 
“ Cliowkundee.” Sath Garh, under the name of “ Sutgurrah,” and “ Slmtgurrah,” 
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