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liath ; 277 and that between the Biliat and the Sind, Sind-Sagar. 278 The 
distance from the Sutlaj to the Brail is fifty kuroh; from the Biah to 
the Rawi, seventeen ; from the Rawi to the Chin-ab, thirty ; from the 
Chin-ab to the Bihat, twenty; and from the Bihat to the Sind, sixty- 
eight kuroh” 
“ The Multan Sub ah ,” he says, “ before the territory of Thathah 
[that is middle and lower Sind—Siw-istan or Wicholo, and Thathah or 
Lar, making five Sarkdrs] was included, extended from Firuz-pur to 
Siw-istan [that is, their boundaries : not to those particular places], a 
distance of four hundred and three kuroh , and adjoins the Sarkdr of 
Sahrind on the east; Shor on the north; the Subah of Ajirir on the 
south ; 279 and Kich and Mukran on the west. 230 
“ The Bihat unites with the Chin-ab near the parganah of Shor, 281 
then running for a distance of twenty-seven kuroh , near Zafar-pur, 232 
they unite with the Rawi, and all three become one river. Sixty kuroh 
lower down, near U'chchh, they enter the Sind. For about twelve kuroh 
above, to near Firuz-pur, the Biah and Sutlaj unite, and after that lose 
their names, and are styled Harihari [ ], 283 Dand [ ], 28i and 
Nurni [ ]. Near Multan, having united with the other four 
[rivers], tney flow together. 235 Every river that enters the Sind [river] 
acquires the name Sind.” 
£77 Cunningham, in his “Ancient Geography of India,” page 154, says : “The 
names of the Doabs [Do-abahs?] were invented by Akbar, by combining the names 
of the including rivers. Thus, Chaj is an abbreviation of Chenab and Jhelam ; 
Richna of Ravi and Chenab ; and Bari of Bias [there is no river so called except by 
Europeans] and Ravi.” What Akbar Badshah called them may be seen from Abu-1- 
Fazl’s statement above. There is no such do-dbah as “ Chaj.” This is a mere 
mistake for Chin-hath. This name is obtained, as mentioned in the Survey I have 
before alluded to, from ‘ ch’ and ‘ n,’ the first two consonants in Chin-ab. and ‘ h,’ 
and ‘ t,’ the two last consonants of Wihat or Bihat (also called the Jhilam)—Chin- 
hat, to which compound word a final ‘ h’ is sometimes added, making it Ohin-hath, 
as above described. The name Bist-Jhalandar is obtained in the same manner from 
‘b’ and ‘ i ’ of Biah, and ‘s’ and ‘t’ of Sutlaj. In Bloclimann’s printed text of 
the A’in-i-Akbari, the ‘ s 5 has been left out. 
£78 Abu-1-Fazl gives his master rather more credit here than he is entitled to. 
Sind-Sagar is as old as the time of Ibn Khurdad-bih and the Mas’udi. See page 210. 
£79 See note 239, page 274. 
250 After Thathah and its dependencies were included therein. See A’in. 
281 Shor, at present, is some twenty-five miles below the place of junction. See 
page 293, and note 267, and also a note on this subject farther on. 
282 This place is not now known. The junction must have been a few miles 
lower down than the present place of meeting. 
283 Also written Hariari [ ]• 
234) Or Dandah as it is sometimes written. See also note 240, page 275. 
235 I have given his words literally here. See note 239, page 274, and note 254, 
page 285. 
