350 H. G. Raverfcy— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. [Ex. No. 
miles south-west of it, the junction of the Biah and Chin-ab then took 
place, and there the old channel of the Biah is still to be seen. Now, 
there is no Biah running there, and the Gharah—the Sutlaj and Biah 
united—joins the Chin-ab and its tributaries sixteen miles lower down 
in the direction of soutli-soutli-west. 
The Kot-i-Shuja’ Khan, on the west side of the Ohin-ab above the 
junction, here referred to, must not be mistaken for what is, at present, 
called Shuja’-abad. The Sayyid, Gliulam Muhammad, says : “ There 
are two Kots known as Kot-i-Shuja’ Khan ; one on the west side of the 
river, and one on the east [the Shuja’-abad of the present time], and 
are distant twenty Tcuroh from each other.” 360 
Abu-1-Fazl, in the A’in-i-Akbari, gives but a very brief notice 
of the Chin-ab ; and what he says respecting it, has been previously 
recorded at page 294. 
The Khulasat-ut-Tawarikh the author of which was a Hindu, 
mentions, that the Ohin-ab, in the books of the Hindus is called 
Ohandar-Bhaga, and attributes its name to the Ohandar issuing out of 
Chin [China]. It soon enters Kiwar [jfjj/], celebrated for its saffron. 
It then receives some tributaries, and gets the name of Ohandar-Bhaga. 
It falls over high rocks at a place near Jammun [ vul . “ Jumoo ” and 
“Jamoo”], forming a magnificent sight, and after that breaks into 
eighteen branches which again unite, after flowing a distance of twelve 
Tcuroh , at the Jcasbah of Bahlul-pur. It then flows through the Sial 
Kot district, and below the kasbah of Sudharah passes onwards towards 
Wazir-abad. The wood called sale («AL») and diydr (jb^), which is 
well known, is brought down by merchants from the mountain tracts 
of Ohanbah to Wazir-abad; and floated as far down as Bakhar and 
Tliathah. The Shah Guzr or Royal Ferry is at Wazir-abad. *** The 
river then reaches Ohandani-ot, 361 an ancient place, where is the tomb 
of the Sayyid, Shah Burhan. From thence it flows on into Jhang-i- 
Sialan, which was the dwelling place of Hirah, who is celebrated 
throughout these parts for her love of Ranjah, 362 and, after passing it, 
the Ohin-ab unites with the Wihat or Jililam, as already recorded.” 
*60 Shahamat ’Ali, in his work on Bahawal-pur, says (page xxvii) : “ From 
the low and marshy nature of the country south of Multan, there are few towns 
or villages in that direction of any distinction, excepting Shujahabad and Kot-i- 
Shuja [Khan], which are more military posts than towns.” 
361 The anoient channel of the Chin-ab which passes Ohandan-ot less than two 
miles on the east, is twenty-five miles from the present channel near Jhang, and as 
before mentioned, the whole tract between is more or less seamed with old channels. 
362 There is a poem in the Panj-abi dialect, very popular throughout these 
parts, on the loves of Hirah and Ranjah. 
