1892.] H. Gr. Raverfcy —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 387 
The “ Old Bias Nalla,” so called, is without doubt, the remains 
of the channel of that second branch into which the Biah in bygone 
times separated into two branches near the karyah of Loh-Wal or Lohi- 
Wal, as already noticed, long before it had any connection with the 
Sutlaj ; and not long ago water found its way into it. 395 
With respect to the two perennial hill streams in the present Jal- 
handar Do-abah, which are “ supposed to be all one with the upper 
and lower Sohag, and the Khan-Wall canal,” I may mention, that, of 
the streams in that Do-abali in the last century, when the Survey was 
made, there were two principal ones, the one named Kali W T a’m or 
Ba’in or (jJpj), and the other Dhauli Wa’ in or Ba ’in. 397 The 
latter issuing from the hills of the Siwalikh, and running southwards, 
passed Sara’e-i-Dakhani on the south, and, opposite Jalal-abad in the 
present Firuz-pur district, three miles south of Dbaram Kot, united 
with the Sutlaj, which since that time has changed its course. 
The other is called the Dhauli Wa ’in or Ba ’in, which issues from a 
kol-i-ab or lake west of the ancient town of Do-suhah, 393 and which lake 
is some six or seven kuroh in circumference, and very deep. It passes 
Yahya Kagar on the north, where there is a masonry bridge of burnt 
396 See following note 399. 
397 In the maps, the lower part of the Kali Wa’in or Ba’fn is styled the 
“ Kalnah River,” but, a little higher up it appears as the “ Veyn Nuddee ” ; and the 
Dhauli Wa’in or Ba’in, is called “ Beyn Nuddee.” It was thought, probably, that 
one river was called the “ Veyn” and the other the “ Beyn.” In the Gazetteers, 
on the contrary, they are styled the “ Kali Ben,” and the “ Sufed Ben,” safed being 
merely the Persian of the Hindi name. 
Dhaula is from the Sanskrit —‘white’—and Ba’in or Wa’in is probably 
from channel,’ ‘ gully,’ ‘ pipe,’ etc., in the same language. 
The Dhauli Wa’in or Ba’ in appears to have passed rather nearer to Jalhandar 
in former times than at present. When Jasrath, son of Shaikha, the Khokhar, rebel¬ 
led in 824 H. (1421 A.D.), among other doings was to invest Jalhandar; and 
Zirak Khan, the feudatory, was obliged to shut himself up therein. Jasrath took 
up his position on the banks of the Sarasti, as the Dhauli Wa ’in or Ba ’in was then 
called ; and Zirak Khan had to make terms with the rebel, and evacuate the place. 
After this, Sultan Mubarak Shah had to move against him, as already related. 
Lahor, at this time, was a heap of ruins; and the Sultan on this occasion repamed 
its citadel, and the walls of the town. 
393 Spelt in the original but Abu-1-Fazl, in the A ’in-i-Akbari, spells 
it —Deso-ah. It appears in our maps as “ Dusooyuh,” and “ Dussohuh” and in 
other ways, no two maps being alike, and all wrong ! 
According to tradition, this place was founded only five thousand years ago, 
and was the capital of Rajah Bharata of the Maha-bharata, in whose service the 
five Pandavas continued during their thirteen years of banishment while the Kurus 
were all powerful. 
