370 H. G-. Raverfcy —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. [Ex. No. 
the Sidhu or Sidli Na’e, 366 which runs in almost a straight line for some 
twelve miles, and without a turn, to near Sidhu ki Sara’e, where it 
united with the Chiu-ab. After that again, when the Chin-ab inclined 
more to the west, passed Ohandani-ot and Shor Kot on the west instead 
of the east side, the Rawi, to rejoin it, made a fresh effort, and by a 
very tortuous course reached the depressed sandy tract near which the 
present junction takes place. 
The land through which this Sidh Na’e runs declines a little on 
the north or right bank the whole way, and is bounded within a short 
distance of the bank by a date forest ; s66 while a belt of higher land 
fringes it on the south or left bank, but it soon melts into the lower 
tract adjoining it. 
This is a mere general outline of the principal and greatest 
changes which have taken place since the time of the Arabs. I will 
not go back to “ Alexander ” and “ Hweng Thsang ”—for there is no 
doubt that the Rawi, even more than some of the other rivers constitu¬ 
ting the Panch Nad or Panj A'b, has changed more or less from one side 
S65 The Rawi in its last change before forsaking the Biah altogether, appears 
to have met with some considerable obstrnction in its coarse westwards near Bakra 
and Lai Kathiyah, as its winding struggles and turnings show, but more particularly 
north of Tulanbah, upon which, and in order to reach the depressed tracts towards 
the Ohin-ab, it betook itself, naturally, to the first depressed outlet in its way. 
This happened to be a canal which a former administrator, or farmer of the revenue, 
had cut to facilitate the irrigation of a part not within the influence of the annual 
inundations. This was carried towards the Sara’e of Sidhu, to near a point called 
Ram Chontarah, where the Hindus have a place of devotion, about two miles and 
a half east of Sidhu’s Sara’e, and a little west of which it reached the Chin-ab 
again, which ran south-westwards towards the Biah, but a little nearer to Multan 
on the east side than it had previously done. 
No traces of excavation having remained in after years to show that it had 
once been a canal, deepened and widened by the action of the river—for it would 
have been strange, if any signs had remained after a few inundations—and the fact 
of its being so straight, and running through some of the more elevated land in 
that locality, the Hindus (who greatly predominated over the Musalman population 
in former times), at once attributed it to one of their deities, while the Musalmans, 
more coi-rectly attributed it to some Muhammadan ruler of bygone times. It does 
not seem to have struck any one that the same Sidhu, who founded a Sara’e, round 
whioh a little town sprung up, could also have had a canal excavated to bring water 
to it, and without the aid of demons, but such is the fact. 
The Ab-i-Sind or Indus changed its course through a canal being in its way. 
See note 301, page 303. 
366 Date trees flourish along the Sidh Na’e, and near and around the villages 
on the Oliin-ab and the Gharali, in the Multan district, but, strange to say, are not 
found on the Rawi and villages thereabouts. The natives ascribe the introduction 
of the date palm to the ’Arabs, and beyond the parts they reached it is not supposed 
to be found. 
