1892.] H G. Raverty— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. 333 
reach the banks of the Wihat, and cross into the Sind-Sagar Do-abah 
by boat. This ferry is known as the Qhhautarah Patan, and the large 
Jcaryah of Qhhautarah is close by the banks on the west side. From 
this last named place you proceed, through a very sandy tract, six kuroh 
south-west to Uchchh-i-Gul Imam, a strong fort,” etc., etc. 
At the present time, Massan, turned into “ Mussun” in our maps, is 
nearly four miles from the Qhin-ab, and nearly five east of the Wihat. 
There is still a very small village known as Chhautarah, but apparently 
not that referred to here, 818 which has probably disappeared, close to the 
west bank, and two miles and a half above the junction of the two 
rivers, just below which is the ferry now known as Trimun Patan. 
Among the belahs or islands in the bed of the Wihat, north of the 
present Chhautarah, there is one a mile and a quarter in length and 
nearly as broad, called the Belah of Qhhautarah, showing where the 
large karyah so called once flourished. 
In the route leading westwards towards the Dera’h of Ghazi 
Khan still greater changes are to be found. The Survey account says : 
“ In going from Jhang-i Sialan thither by way of the Haweli of Bahadur 
Shah. Kureshi 819 [which is about mid-way between Jhang and Shor Kot] 
you leave the aforementioned Haweli , and having proceeded one kuroh 
west, reach a large ndlah [yul. “ nulla”]—a small river, a branch of, 
or coming from, the Qhin-ab, which, flowing between two and three 
kuroh towards the left hand (south), again unites with it. Except in 
the rainy season it is fordable knee-deep. From it you go half a Jcuroli 
west, and reach the Qhin-ab and Wihat, which flow in one channel, and 
here it is near upon two kuroh in breadth. You have to cross by boat. 
The place of junction of the two rivers, which is called by the name 
of Trimun, is about three kuroh higher up on the right hand (north). 830 
“ On the other side of the aforementioned river [the two united] 
there is also another ndlah or channel of great size, which comes from 
the right hand from the river Wihat, and at the patan or ferry unites 
with the Qhin-ab. This guzr or ferry, on the Sind-Sagar Do-abali side, 
is called the Patan of ’All Kahanna ( ), and, on the Rachin-ao Do- 
M 
abah side, the Patan of Bahadur Shah, Kureshi. ’All Kahanna is the 
name of a branch of the Sial tribe, who number between three and four 
thousand families. 
It has probably taken the name of the former village of that name. See the 
large scale Revenue Survey map. 
M9 See note 325, page 335. 
32° The point of junction a short time since was eight miles above ’All 
Kahanna, or two miles higher up than at the period in question, and nearly nine 
miles below Massan. See also page 335. 
