1892.] H. G. Raverty —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 369 
left bank on the south, which extends from a little south of Sayyid- 
Walah down to within six miles west of Hurappah, where it approaches 
close to the present channel, is, as its name clearly indicates, namely 
Sukli Rawali, 363 the “ Dry ” or “ Dried up Rawah or Rawi,” for it is 
known by both names. That old channel adjoining Sidhu ki Sara’e 
on the west, and which, under the same name, runs down to within 
about three miles east of Multan, is not part of the old channel referred 
to above, but a more recent one : that in which it flowed when the 
Chiu-ab united with it near Sidhu ki Sara’e in 1695, and which it 
appears to have flowed in before it finally abandoned the Biah to unite 
with the Ohin-ab. 363 
After that again, having met with some considerable obstruction 
above Tulanbah, 364 as its singularly winding course, and its sharp turns— 
south, west, and north again—indicate, or some other cause, it betook 
itself to that remarkable part of its present channel, known locally as 
which Mir ’All Beg speedily retired towards Shor, followed closely by the Sultan, 
who crossed the main branch [sic] of the river Rawi, and appeared before it. Mir 
’All Beg again retired towards Kabul, still leaving Mir Muzaffar, his nephew, to 
hold it. He held out for a month, when, finding lie could not do so much longer, 
terms were agreed upon, that Mir Muzaffar should send his daughter as a bride 
for the Sultan’s son, together with many valuable presents, and that the troops 
left by Mir ’All Beg at Lahor should evacuate that place. This effected, the 
Sultan set out to visit the tombs and shrines at Multan, and then returned to 
Dihli. Shor. and the tracts to the north and west, still remained in the hands of 
the Mughals, until the time of the Langah Jat rulers of Multan, the second of whom, 
Sultan Husain, after much fighting, wrested the fortress of Shor out of the hands of 
Ghazi Khan son of Saiydu Khan, and also the town of Ohandani-ot, held by Malik 
Machhi, the Khokhar, for the same Mughal Khan. The territory of Shor was then 
conferred on Jam Bayazid, of the family of the Sammah rulers of Sind, as before 
related. Sultan Husain’s wife was Bayazid’s mother by a former husband. See 
pages 279—281, and 291. 
362 This, and the other old channel mentioned after, appear in our maps as 
“ Sookhrawa N,” from which one would scarcely recognize the meaning. 
363 See page 355. 
364 Cunningham says, in his work (“Ancient India,” p. 223), that “ the old 
town of Tulanba, is said to have been deserted as late as one hundred and fifty 
years ago, through changes in the course of the Ravi.” At page 225, however, 
he says it was deserted “three hundred years ago,” having told ns on the 
previous page, that “ the old town was plundered and burnt by Timur, and its in¬ 
habitants massacred.” The preceding note 361 will show who destroyed the 
fortress and massacred the inhabitants. The place appears to have been in a 
flourishing condition when Mir ’Ali Beg attacked it. 
Shahamat ’Alistates, that “ the present old fort of Tulanbah is of comparatively 
modern construction, and was built to restrain the wild tribes of the Gann 
JBdr.” 
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