1892.] H. G. Raverty— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. 
337 
“The Sandal Bar , or central alluvial flat or plateau or elevated 
waste, lying between the Chin-ab and the Rawi, which stretches from 
north-east to south-west, is some forty kuroh in length, and about half 
that in breadth, embracing all the jangal waste from the cultivated belt 
along the east or left bank of the Chin-ab, to the cultivated belt along 
the west or right bank of the Rawi included in the sub-district depen¬ 
dent on Farid-abad on that river.” Thus this Bar lies in the lower 
part of the Gujaran-Walah district of the Panj-ab, as at present consti¬ 
tuted, and the upper part of the Jhang-i-Sialan, and the upper western 
part of the Ghugherah or Montgomery districts. “On the east it 
adjoins the Ganji Bar, and on the west, farther down, the Gondal Bar . 
The country rises gradually upwards from the banks of the Ohin-ab 
towards the edge or ridge of the Sandal Bar, which having reached, the 
edge or ridge, in the upper part, in the Jhang district, rises somewhat 
abruptly for some feet, and continues to rise until the central or highest 
part is reached, which attains a height of between thirty and forty 
feet or more above the level of the plain below. At first the river runs 
nearly parallel to it in some places, but, farther south and west, the river 
flows farther away from it, and at last this Bar dies away towards the 
Gondal Bar. Water in the Sandal Bar is exceedingly scarce, and the 
inhabitants, who are of the Bhatl tribe, very scanty. In the upper part of 
this Bar, and within the Jhang district, are the ruins of three ancient 
cities, Sangala or Sangala Tall, Tallah, or Tibbah, Rasul, and Asraur; 329 
and offshoots from the Kiranah range of hills in the Ohin-hath Do-abah, on 
part of which the ancient town of Ohandani-ot, 830 also written Chandan-ot, 
329 It is strange that these ancient sites, Asraur and Rasul, have not been 
“ identified.’’ 
830 The correct name of this ancient town, about three quarters of a mile from 
the Ohin-ab in the last century, is Chandan-ot or Chandanl-ot, and is derived, 
according to tradition, from Chandan, the name of the daughter of a petty 
chief of these parts, and to which is affixed the word ot (as in Muhammad-ot on 
the Hariari, turned into “ Mumdot ” in the maps) from the Sanskrit, which word 
signifies, ‘ covering,’ ‘ surrounding,’ ‘ shelter,’ ‘ cover,’ etc. 
The famous Wazir of Aurang-zeb-i-’Alam-gir Badshah, Sa’d-nllah Khan, was a 
native of Ohandan-ot, as was also another mansab-ddr of that reign, Wazir Khan. 
Khatris of this part who turn Muhammadans are, in the idiom of the Panj-ab, 
styled Paranchalis and Kahochahs. 
From constant use, apparently, the name Ohandan-ot or Ohandani-ot, has been 
shortened into Ohani-ot. 
The learned Editor of Elliot’s “Historians” (vol. iv, page 232), in the extract 
from the “ Tuzak-i-Babari,” where Babar Badshah says: “As I always had the 
conquest of Hindustan at heart, and as the conquest of Bahrah, Khushab, Chinab, 
and Chaniut, among which I now was, had long been in the possession of the Turks ” 
etc., the Editor has a foot-note to “Chaniut,” and after telling us that Bahrah at 
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