353 
1892.] H. Gr. Raverty— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries . 
passes below Chanbah where is a wooden bridge, and flows to BisobH 
where is a boat ferry. Below Shah-pur it leaves the hills, 
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and here there is a cutting of about a quarter of the volume of water, 
which is carried on to Lahor and Pathan or Patan Kot, 866 and to the 
parganahs of Batalah and Path The channel of this nahr or cutting 
is now ruined [through neglect], and the stream having turned away 
from Bahram-pur, re-unites with the main river near the city of Lahor. 
The Rawi afterwards flows by Farid-abad, Sayyid-Walah, and within 
a huroh of Tulanbah; and just half-way between the village of Dandi- 
Walah and Sargani, unites with the Ohin-ab and loses its name. The 
place of junction is called Trimun.” 
A channel from this nahr from the Rawi can be distinctly traced 
from Shah-pur, by Grurdas-pur, Batalah (“Bulata” of the maps), and 
from fourteen to fifteen miles south of Amrit-Sar ( vul . “Umritsur”), 
and appears in the maps as “ Dry N.” ; while the nahr itself, which 
is said (in the Survey record), to turn aside from Bahram-pur (the 
“ Buhrampoor ” of the maps) appears as the “Kirn N.,” which now 
unites with the parent stream seventeen miles above, instead of close to 
Labor. 
What changes are here shown to have taken place during the 
lapse of even less than a century ! Such is a brief notice of the Rawi 
from the Survey record I have already quoted. 
366 According to Cunningham (page 144), “ the name of this place is not 
derived from the well known Muhammadan Pathans, or Afghans, but from the 
Vath&n Tribe of Hindu Rajputs .” This is something quite new, and may account 
for the “ Pathan Coins,” and the “ Pathan Dynasties ” of the “ Archaeological 
Department,” in which have been included Tajziks, Turks, Sayyids, Jats, Habashis, 
and others, who have ruled in Hind, and formed into one delightful jumble, being 
styled “ Pathans,” without there having been a single Patan among them ; and now 
we must add, it seems, “ Hindu Rajptit Pathans ” although, I suppose, there are no 
Musalman “ Rajput Pathans.” 
This comes from Tod probably, as, at page 233, Yol. II., of his “ Rajast’han,” 
referring to the Langah Jats who once ruled over the territory of Multan (See my 
“ Notes on Afghanistan.” etc., page 569) he says that, “ The use of the word 
Pat’hdu by no means precludes their being Hindus.” What then does Pat’han 
mean ? 
The “ Pasto, Pakhhto,” and “ Pukhhsto ” scholars have to their own satisfaction 
proved, that the ITd'KTues of Herodotus ” are the “ Pathans or Afghans,” whose 
progenitor was only born about the year 576 A. D., but here they are all “identi¬ 
fied” as “ Hindu Rajputs.” 
This, however, is nothing to the discovery of another philosopher, only lately 
come to light, namely, that “the name Afghan [only the people call themselves 
Pus’htanah] is connected with the A^vaca of the Mahabarata /” This is well worthy 
of insertion in a Gazetteer or a Cyclopedia, or such like “popular” reading. See 
note 27, page 164. 
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