388 H. Gr. Raverty —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. [Ex. No; 
bricks ; then to the north of Sultan-pur, under which place it is also 
spanned by a brick bridge, and about eleven huroh farther to the south¬ 
west unites with the Blab.” At this period the Sutlaj passed close to 
Pindouri, two miles and a half north of Dharam Kot, and which former 
place is now five miles south of the Sutlaj. 
That these two streams had any connection with the “ two Sohags ” 
or the “ Khanwah canal,” is very improbable. The Kali Ba’in or 
Wa ’in may possibly have had some connection with the Katorali canal, 
or that canal, rather, with the Kali Wa ’m. s " 
At a period long anterior to the two accounts of the Biah as it 
flowed just one hundred and two hundred years ago respectively, as 
mentioned at pages 372 and 373, it was separated from the Sutlaj by a 
tract of country some sixty-five miles or more in breadth, and the 
latter river was still a tributary of the Hakra or Wahindali. The Biah 
also still flowed through the Sarlcdr of Debal-pur, in the direction of 
about south-west, to within some twenty-eight miles south-east of the 
city of Multan; 400 and three or four miles or thereabouts north-west 
of Din Muhammad ka Tibbah, and between that village and the Chak 
of the Makhdum-i-Rasliid (the “ Mukhdoom Rusheed” of the maps), 
was joined by the united Wihat, Ohin-ab, and Rawi. 401 It then con¬ 
tinued its course more towards the south, passing between Lohdran 
and Jalal-pur, in the south-west corner of the Mullan district, but 
nearer to the former place. From thence it ran to Babiyah (or 
Pabiyah—the Pubberwalla ” of some of the maps, but it has dis- 
399 According to my Survey record, “ in going from Debal-pur towards Kasur, 
after passing Sham Kot, half a kwoh north of that place yon come to the channel 
called the Khan-Wa-hah, in which, in former times, a stream of water from the 
Darya-e Biah ran, which passed by Debal-pur on the south towards the south¬ 
west. It was also known as the Biah, and now its channel is deserted, and dried 
up.” It was never yet called “ Ghara,” except in Gazetteers. 
At the present time, instead of being half a Tcuroh north of Sham Kot, the 
channel is nearly a huroh, or about a mile and a half, south of Sham Kot; and in 
the several routes across the Do-abah from Debal-pur in different directions, there 
is not one word about any “ Kutora Canal,” thus showing that it must have been 
opened since. It may have been some minor channel utilized as a canal. 
400 The nearest point of the most recent channel in which the Biah flowed, 
is just eighteen miles south of Multan; and to this point a new canal has been 
brought from the northwards from the Ohin-ab. whieh passes close to Sitalkf 
Mari. See note 354, page 352. 
401 T he country hereabouts for many miles northwards of the chak (farm or 
estate) of Makhdum-i-Rashid and Din Muhammad ka Tibbah, as far as the termi¬ 
nation of the high left bank of the Rawi, and the right high bank of the dry 
Biah, bears undoubted signs of the violent action of water, and shows whereabouts 
these rivers once united. See Sikah or Us-Sikah of Multan, page 244 and note 192. 
