331 
1892.] H. G. Raverfcy— The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 
and interchangeable with ‘ b ’ (<->), the people of that part call it Wihat 
and Bihat. 
“ From under the fort of Jihlam the Bihat passes below Jalal-pur- 
i-Garchak, and by Bahrah (then close to its bank) and Kdiusli-ab, and 
within a short distance of the karyah of Chhautarah ( ) un if es 
with the Chin-ab, and loses its own name.” 
In the lower part of the Chin-bath Do-dbah, or delta, between the 
Bihat or Jihlam and the Chin-ab, there is an extensive tract of table 
land, or plateau, sloping gradually upwards on either side, at a distance 
of about three or four miles, or more in some places, from the rivers’ 
banks, and beginning with a low, abrupt ridge, which separates the 
good lands lying along the banks from the waste in question. It 
extends from near Nun-Miani on the north, in the Shah-pur district, 
down towards the junction of the Bihat and Chin-ab. In about the 
centre of this plateau there is a range of rugged hills, running in 
parallel ridges across the Do-dbah. They extend from east to west about 
twenty-one miles, and from north to south about ten or twelve. Some 
of their offshoots extend across the Chin-ab, which cuts its way through 
them, east of the town of Chandani-ot, or Chandan-ot ( vul . “ Cliuneeot ”), 
part of which stands on them ; and some of their minor offshoots, or 
waves, extend for some twenty miles or more into the Rachin-ab Do- 
dbah, as far as the Sangala Tall , or Tallah. They are known as the 
Kiranah range, and this elevated tract or plateau is named the Kiranali 
Bar or waste after them. 
All along the west bank of the Bihat, which river contains a much 
lesser volume of water than the Chin-ab, there is a belt or strip of 
alluvium, as its Hindi name of Jcachchhi implies, the same word as 
noticed in note 349, at page 348, and applied in the same way. It 
extends westwards from the river bank from half a mile to four and 
five, and, in some few places, as much as ten miles, but the average 
bnstible—napthah or petroleum probably) upon the waters, they set it on fire, drop¬ 
ped down the channel, and departed. 
_ *T S 
As to the origin of the name Thathali——Cunningham states, at pao-e 288 
of his “ Ancient Geography of India,” that thattha means a ‘ shore,’ a e bank,’ so 
that Nagar Thatha would mean the city on the bank.” 
That— —Sanskrit cRT, signifies ‘ a bank,’ 1 a shore,’ and which is 
written like the name of the place, and the other mode of writing it— ; n Hindi 
signifies ‘ sport,’ £ fan,’ etc. The probability is that the name of the place does not 
refer to either of the significations mentioned above. There are scores of villages in 
the Panj-ab with the prefix thathi to their names, and the city in question, was not 
at all times on either ‘ a bank ’ or c shore.’ 
‘ a crowd,’ c throng,’ ‘ assemblage,’ is the more 
1 hath in Hindi, signifying 
likely origin of the name of this place 
