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1892.] H. G. Haver ty —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries . 
A'b-i-Sind—for that was not included among the seven rivers, or “ Saptah 
Sindhun ” 316 —to the west bank of the Saraswatn 
•who sailed thither from Thathah down the Bhagar branch of the river. When 
Pottinger was in Sind along with that Embassy, the Bhagar branch is said to have 
been “ the chief outlet of the water of the Panjaub and Attock, and was upwards 
of twenty miles wide at its mouth.” 
In the year 578 H. (1182-83 A. D.), Debal—or Dibal, as its name is written in 
the Musalman histories—was taken possession of, together with its territory lying 
along the sea-coast, by Sultan Mu’izz-ud-Dm, Muhammad, son of Sam, the Shansa- 
bani Tajzik Sultan of Ghazihn, the same who established the Muhammadan rule 
over Dihlf, the “ Shabudin,” and “ Shahab-ood-Deen ” of Dow and Briggs, and 
their copyists. Near Debal was Damrilah, both of which places were taken posses¬ 
sion of by Sultan Jalal-ud-Din, Mangbarni, the Khwarazm Shah, when he came 
into Lower Sind in 621 H. (1224 A. D.). Having gained possession of Siw-istan, 
the modern Sihwan, he marched from thence to Debal; and its ruler, named 
Chanisar, whose Musalman title was Sinan-ud-Din, of the Sumrah tribe, and who was 
ruler of Lar, or the Debal territory (and subject to Sultan Nasir-ud-Din, Kaba-jali 
of Multan and U'chchh, which included all Sind), who is called a Habash in the 
Tabakat-i-Nasiri (page 294, which see, also note), fled by sea and escaped. The 
Sultan from thence detached a force against Nahar-Walah, which returned with 
immense booty. He then founded a Jami’ Masjid at Debal on the ruins of an idol 
temple, the same, in all probability, which was demolished when the ’Arabs captured 
the place, and from which it took its name. 
At the period in question Thathah was not in existence, neither was it when 
Ibn Batutah was at Lahri Bandar in 734 H. (1333-34 A. D.). The ruins noticed by 
him I believe to be those of Damrilah. See note 173, page 224, and note 195, 
page 255. 
There is a deal in Elliot, Yol. I, p. 374, respecting Debal which he “ identified ” 
as Karachi, and Manorah as the site of its idol temple, but, as he also “identified” 
Mansuriyah and Bahman-abad as Haidar-abad, we may be permitted to ignore its 
correctness. No allowance whatever is made by writers of the present day for the 
changes which are hourly taking place in the course of the Indus and its tributaries, 
and in the formation of its deltas, some of which changes, in rather less than three 
centuries, I have shown from the extracts previously given. 
The author of the well known and valuable history, the Jahan-Ara, Ahmad, son 
of Muhammad, the l^azwini, died at Debal in 975 H. (1567 A. D.), on his way to 
Hindustan from Tran. 
In the reign of Baki Muhammad Khan of Balkh, about 1006 H., an Uzbak 
noble of high rank, Mansur, the Dad-Khwa, set out on the pilgrimage to Makkah 
316 Dr. Muir, in his “ Sanskrit Texts ” says, that Prof. Max Muller states 
(“ Chaps.” 1-63), that the seven rivers are “ the Indus, the five rivers of the Panj- 
ab, and the Sarasvati.” This is a mistake ; and the Indus appears to have been 
adopted because he left out the Gliag-ghar, which flows between the Sutlaj and the 
Saraswati, but which river, although its ancient name of Drishadwati is given b_y 
both the writers named, they do not appear to have been acquainted with its moro 
modern name. It is never once mentioned by that name in Dr. Muir’s work. 
