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then flowed in its last independent channel. At the present time the 
Biah, or main branch, is closed, and dried up entirely, and, in conse¬ 
quence, the tracts of country around and dependent on Debal-pur 830 are 
reduced to a state of desolation.” 
that Alexander crossed “the Hydaspas (Jeloum)—meant for the Jihlam perhaps— 
the Acesines (Chenab ), the Hydraotes ( Ravee ), and “the Hypasis (Sutlej), the last 
of the five rivers.” So, it will be noticed, that he has but four after all, having 
left out the Biah altogether, one of the principle of the Panj Ab or Five Rivers, 
and that he turns the Hyphasis, which others consider to be the Biah—and correct¬ 
ly so, no doubt—into the Sutlaj. This error seems to have been brought about 
through following the courses of the rivers as shown in the maps of the present 
day, and finding no running river called “ Bias ” in the direction required, because 
the map-makers will style the Hariari or Gharah by the name of “ Sutlej,” whereas 
it is the combined Biah and Sutlaj that formed the Hariari or Gharah, he at once 
adopted the “ Sutlej.” He subsequently traces all Alexander’s movements to the 
mouth of the Indus according to the present courses of the rivers, as represented 
in modern maps. 
He further tells us, that, “ Doab signifies the space between each two rivers of the 
Tunjab .” However, I need scarcely tell those who have been in the East, that do- 
abah in the Persian language, for it is a Persian word, means the delta between 
two rivers wherever they may be. He also supposes, that “ Lahore” represents 
“ Sangala ” of the Greeks, in which he is also wrong. See note 390, page 380. 
330 Debal-pur, not “ Dipalpur,” in ancient times, was a place of considerable 
size, and the seat of government of the northern Panj-ab territory, after Lahor 
had been sacked by the Mughals as related in the “ Tabakat-i-Nasiri,” page 1133, 
and it did not again become the capital for a considerable time. The author of the 
Survey record, who visited it towards the close of the last century, states, that, 
“ from the time the Biah deserted it, it has gone to total decay and ruin. It has 
a fortress or citadel of considerable size and strength, built of kiln-burnt bricks, 
which is lofty and imposing viewed from a distance. It can be seen for some three 
kuroh. It is now in the possession of Jalal-ud-Din Khan, an Afghan inhabitant of 
Kasur [of the Daulatzi branch of the ’Umarzi Khweshki Afghans]. He holds the 
first with a small following amounting to one hundred horse and foot. The space 
between the four walls constitutes his territory ; and, with the exception of a few 
btgahs of land at the foot of the walls, and tolls received from merchants and 
traders, he has no other revenue or means of support. Although Bhagwant Singh, 
and Wazir Singh, and other Sikhs, have each, at the head of numerous followers, 
at different times, invested him therein, they have had to retire without gaining 
their object. 
“ The dry bed of the Biah lies one leuroh distant on the right hand ( north¬ 
west), and the Hariari flows away on the left (south-east) distant about nine leuroh 
or little more. On the way from the Hujrah of Shah Mukim a great jangal of 
pilu trees has to be traversed.” 
He relates the legend of the transmigration of Lalu-jas Ra ’e, the Agwdni or 
Precursor of the Hing-laj Blrawanr, and that he has a temple there I need not 
enter into its details, but I hope this “ Agwdni ” will not be mistaken for an Afghan. 
