373 
1892.] H. Gr. Raverty —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 
GharahWS (iff ), which, in the tracts peopled by the Baluchis, joins 
the river containing the united Rawi, Chin-ab, and Wihat, Bihat, or 
Jihlam, when the whole are known by the name of Sind—the Ab-i-Sind 
or River of Sind.” 
This is. a very important statement, referring, as it does, to the 
state of these rivers written by a native Hindu revenue official of the 
Panj-ab under the Mughal Government, just a century anterior to the 
Survey from which I have been quoting, and to which I shall presently 
return. This statement respecting the minor branch accounts for the 
existence of that considerable channel which may be traced from some 
twelve miles south of Debal-pur, and, a little to the north of Haweli, 374 
downwards by Kabulah, and Mailsi of the Multan district, and which 
passes west of Fath-pur, 376 north of Kuliror, and by Lohdran. This 
statement also throws light on the rather obscurely expressed passage 
in Abu-1-Fazl respecting the three names which he says the Biah and 
Sutlaj were known by when they united, and so continued to flow for 
twelve huroh to near Firuz-pur. 376 No other writer than the author 
of the Khulasat-ut-Tawarikh gives such information respecting this 
intermediate branch, which is Abu-l-Fazl’s Band ; 377 indeed, no others 
notice it. 
My Survey record, just referred to, states, that “ The river Biah 
rises in the kohistdn of Bhutant (euxj^gj), and issues from a lake called 
Biah Kund. After flowing through a difficult mountain tract, and 
winding considerably, it comes from the eastward, and passes under 
Nadaun, the chief town and seat of government of that part. Then 
running in a general direction of about north-west, winding among the 
hills of the northern Panj-ab, and passing beyond the villages depen- 
873 According to Mackeson, in his account of the voyage down the Sntlaj with 
Captain C. M. Wade in 1832-33, Ghallu is the name of a tribe of Jats, who dwell 
along the course of the Gharah between Bahawal-pur and Mithan Kot in the 
present day. 
374 The “ Huvelee ” of the maps. This is the identical word noticed at 
page 335, note 325, where it is written “ Huivali ” in the maps. See also note 223, 
page 265 where it appears as “ Habeli” 
376 This place was the chief town of a mahdll of the sarltdr of the Multan subah, 
and like Kuhror, the people were Joyahs, but are miscalled Junahs in Blochmann’s 
printed text of Abu-l-Fazl. Those of the first named mahdll were rated at 500 
horsemen and 5,000 foot, and the latter at 100 horsemen and 2,000 foot, for militia 
purposes. The Sayyid-zadah Khizr Khan, afterwards ruler of Dihli, held Fath-pur 
at the outset of his career. 
876 Consequent on this, the Firuz-pur mahdll was in the Berun-i-PanqJi Nad, 
or Extra Panj Ab division of the Debal-pur sarltdr. 
377 See note 254, page 285. 
