JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
Part I.—HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 
Extra No.—1892. 
The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries : a Geographical and Historical 
Study.—By Major H. G. Raverty, Bombay Army (Retired.). 
(With six Plates.) 
Continued from Page 297 of No. IV, 1892, 
In the record of the Survey, completed about a century since, the 
following account is given of the different rivers noticed by Abu-1-Fazl 
above. It matters little, in regard to the present subject, what course 
this and the other rivers took within the hills, as there changes in their 
courses seldom take place ; therefore, I shall confine myself chiefly to an 
account of them after their entry into the more level tracts. 
The Sindhu, Rahr-i-Sind, A'b-i-Sind, or Indus. 
I need not mention in the present paper what the author of the 
Survey says respecting the upper course of the Sindhu, A'b-i-Sind, or 
Indus, and its source, and shall only notice it here from its junction with 
the river of Kabul just above Atak Banaras. 2?9 
2^9 It may not be amiss to mention here what the old European travellers say 
respecting the Indus and the changes in its channel, as well as of the rivers consti¬ 
tuting the Panj Ab, or Panch Nad. What they mention about the places on their 
banks will be found farther on. 
Sir T, Herbert, writing in 1626, says: “ The River Indus, called by Pliny 
Sandus, and Arrian Sinthus, is now called Sinde. After a course of 3,000 miles from 
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