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most; of the Panj-ab rivers—the same convulsion, in all probability, 
which caused, or happened at the same time as, the great flood recorded 
in the Khnlasat-ut-Tawarikh. and related farther on—and the other 
rivers adjoining that tract of territory on the east, tributaries of the 
Hakra or Wahindah. At this period the Ohin-ab turned more to the 
eastward above Ohandan-ot; passed it on the west side instead of on the 
east as it had previously done ; ran for some miles more to the south¬ 
west, passing Jhang-i-Sialan also on the west, which it had passed 
previously on the east; and some thirteen miles farther south-west, 
entered the channel of the Bihat or Wiliat, and flowed past Shor 
Kot six or seven miles to the west. It also passed west of Multan, as 
it does at present; but it then joined the already united Biah and Raw! 
about forty-six miles below Multan, 8 * 9 instead of twenty-eight miles 
below that city on the east, as it had previously done. Then came 
still further changes, which caused the Rawi, presently to be noticed, 
to alter its course, when it deserted the Biah altogether, took a more 
direct westerly course, and united with the Ohin-ab once more, but 
some nineteen or twenty miles north-north-east of Multan, instead of 
passing it a few miles on the east side, as it had previously done. 
From how far tip the Hydaspes the fleet started we may judge from its having- 
taken eight days to reach the confluence of that river with the Acesines ; for if we 
take the daily distance at, say, one half of that mentioned, the starting point 
would have been considerably above Jihlam of the present day. See note 390. 
Alexander’s subsequent movements from this place of junction will be noticed 
farther on. 
249 Abu-1-Fazl, in the A’in-i-Akbarf, places the city of Multan in the Bari 
Do-abah, that is, between the Rawi and the Biah, but this I believe to be an error 
in the arrangement of the columns of his work, because as long as the Rawi conti¬ 
nued to flow east of it, which it still continued to do up to the close of the last 
century, it was in the Rachin-ab Do-abah. Consequently, if Abu-1-Fazl is right, the 
Rawi must then have flowed north of Multan to unite with the Ohin-ab, which it 
could not have done, unless, since his time, it again deserted it, turned southwards, 
and again left the Ohin-ab to unite with the Biah; because, as said above, at the 
close of the last century the Rawi flowed east of it. Another reason why I think 
Abu-1-Fazl in error here is, that Ohaukliandi and Multan were in the same Do-abah 
then, and he places the former in the Rachin-ab Do-abah, but now, it is like 
Multan, in the Bari Do-abah. I have mentioned previously, that, before being 
in the Rachin-ab Do-abah, at the time of the investment of l/chchh by the Mugha 
Nu-in, Mangutah, both Multan and l/chchh were in the Sind-Sagar Do-abah. 
The Bist-Jalhandar Do-abah extends now no farther south than Han ke 
Patan, which is some two hundred miles above Multan. In the same way, Debal- 
pur the Pak Pattan or Ajuddhan, and other places around, were then in the Bist- 
Jalhandar Do-abah, but noio are some eighty miles beyond it, and are in the Bari 
Do-6bah and Ohaukliandi, then in the Rachin-ao Do-abali, is now in the Bari 
Do-abah likewise. 
