302 H. G. Raverty— The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. [Ex. No. 
course more to the west; and that the sand hills were produced by the 
action of wind, blowing the deposits left by the river in its deserted 
bed into heaps, and into their present shapes. The proof of the correct¬ 
ness of this tradition, which is corroborated by the old ’Arab writers, 
lies partly in the fact, that, in the middle part of this Thai , and 
farther towards the east, are villages, still existing, with the addition 
of the words ‘ ha chcK hd 1 belahj and ‘ bet ’ to their names, and that it is 
literally seamed with the old channels in which the Ab-i-Siud or Indus 
once flowed. As an example of this, I may mention a village called 
Basirah, west of the town of Muzaffar Garh, and now in the middle of 
this Thai , just midway between the Indus and Qliin-ab as they now 
flow, and about thirteen miles from each. That village stood on the 
banks of the Indus in the last century ; 293 for, in a deed of sale of this 
particular village at that period, it is designated Bet Basirah. The 
Revenue Settlement Records, no doubt, would furnish many more 
proofs. At Shah Garh, likewise, which lies but six miles and a half 
farther south of it, and about the southern and terminating point of the 
Thai , a long hol-i-db , dhand , or lake, still exists, part of the channel in 
which the river then flowed. 
In former times, as elsewhere mentioned, it united with the rivers 
of the Panj-ab territory opposite U’chqhh, which now is forty miles above 
the confluence near Mit-hi da Kot; and what now constitutes the ’Ali- 
pur sub-division of the Muzalfar Garh district, then lay on the ivest, in] 
stead of the east bank of the Indus ; and Jatii-i, Sit-pur, 299 and Ghaus-pur 
293 For other information respecting these parts on either side of the Ab-i-Sind 
or Indus, as it flowed in the last century, see my “ Notes on Afghanistan,” etc., 
pages 656-660, and 673-676. 
299 The present town is situated on an eminence, the remains of older buildings. 
Here also stands a fine tomb of one of the Naghar chiefs, called Nahars by the Sindis. 
The dome is covered with the usual glazed blue tiles of this part. 
The country round about towards the junction of the rivers is covered with low 
tamarisk jangal , and tall, coarse reeds. 
One of the “ Punjab Gazetteers,” in an account of these parts, presents us with 
some wonderful history—Gazetteer history it may be styled. Therein it is mentioned, 
that it was in the time of the Langah dynasty that the independent kingdom [sic.— 
much like the kingdom of “ the mighty Chaker Rind”] of the Nahars was established 
in what is now the ’Alipiir Tahsil [they must have been content with a small “ king¬ 
dom”]. It was during this dynasty that the Biloches first emerged from the 
Suliman Mountains [in which they were not located, and from which they did not 
come at that period, but from Kich and Mukran], and occupied the country on the 
left bank of the Indus.” It also states, that, “ of the twenty-six generations of 
the Nahar princes, the last is Baklishan Khan, Jamadar of the ’Alipur Tahsil.” Here 
he would probably get pay at the rate of twelve or fifteen rupis per month —Sic 
transit gloria Naharan ! See my “ Notes on Afghanistan.” etc., pages 4 and 648. 
