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appeared from more recent ones), about twenty-nine miles to the east¬ 
ward of ITcbohb, and was situated on its left or south bank, and which 
place, known as the fort of Babiyah, is mentioned in the Chaoh Namah, 
and by the old historians of Sind. 403 After reaching this point, the 
Biah, and the other rivers which had united with it, forming the Rud- 
i-Sind wo Hind of the old Muhammadan writers, made a bend a little 
more to the westward, and united with the Hakra or Waliindah lower 
down, about ninety-eight miles farther to the south-south-west, at a 
place between Baghlah and Sahib Garb in the present Bahawal-pur 
State, which place of junction was known in the early times of the 
writers just referred to, as the Dosh-i-Ab, signifying the “Meeting 
Place of Waters,” as already recorded. 
The Sutlaj flowing in an independent channel, one of those pre¬ 
sently to be described, was still a tributary of the Hakra or Wahindah, 
and united with it some twenty-five miles above the Dosh-i-Ab, where 
the other more western rivers joined it. 
After this period again, and probably a considerable time after 
U'chchh was invested by the Mughal Nu-ln, Mangiitah, and about the 
time of the great flood in the northern parts of the Panj-ab territory, 
other great changes took place. 403 The Qhin-ab, which previously 
402 Boileau mentions this place in his “ Personal Narrative.” He says : 
“ Pdbarwdli is among the chief towns of the Daoodputrahs.” In another place 
he says, that, in “ going from Khanpur to Bahawulpur, Dilawar is 24 kos, then 
Mithra 12 kos, after which is Pubnrwalee 12 kos, and Bahawnlpur 12 kosV 
These two names (written differently) both refer to one and the same place, 
which is, I believe, identical with the site of the fort of Pabiah referred to above, 
or very near it. 
Boileau subsequently mentions a “ Powarwala.” He says : “ Left Bahawulpur 
8 kos E. S. E. over a bad road to the little village of Powarwala, and from thence 
to Mojgur [Moj Garh] 16 ikos.” This can hardly refer to the former place, which 
he says, was then a considerable town. 
Crofton, in his “ Plan for the Sirhind Canal,” has Bdbberwala, 13£ miles about 
S. W. of Bahawnl-pur, and near the high bank of the “ Sutlaj.” He rightly refers 
to the old channel of the Sutlaj as it now remains, not to the channel of the 
Gharah, which has no high bank. The whole tract of country for many miles 
hereabout is of recent formation. See page 386. In former times, likewise, the 
Biah took a more direct southerly course after the junction with it of the Chin, ab 
and Rawi east of Multan. 
The place referred to by Crofton is the same as that referred to by Boileau 
under the name of “ Powarwala,” and seems much too far south to be the site of 
Pabiah above referred to. See note 192, page 244. 
403 What brought about this flood noticed at page 392, is not stated, but it is 
highly probable that some volcanic action was at work, and this may account for 
the formation of these Bars and the Thai, the raised plateaux which I have been 
describing, and the geological formation of which indicates something of the kind. 
