392 H. Gr. Raverty— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. [Ex. No. 
Tawarikh. and in that chronicle only, respecting the great flood in the 
Panj-ab territory. The author was a native of the part adjacent to the 
tract of country affected by it, and possessed the necessary local know¬ 
ledge to describe it. The exact year in which this flood took place is 
not fixed, but it was a long time before the invasion of Hindustan 
by Amir Tinrnr. In all probability it happened a short time before 
Sultan Firuz Shah commenced opening canals; and the vast changes 
which this flood appears to have caused, may have been the reason 
of his bringing canals to his newly founded Firuzah Hisar and parts 
adjacent. 
Some great physical disturbance in the mountains bounding the 
Panj-ab territory on the north “ caused the whole of the country of the 
northern part of that tract to be flooded, in such wise, that the whole 
extent of country between the rivers Sutlaj and Ohin-ab, was over¬ 
whelmed and completely swept by this flood, and the whole face of the 
country changed.” The remains of the ancient channels of these rivers, 
and of the Rawi and Biah, which flowed between them, tend to prove 
this; and the flood appears to have swept along in a south-westerly 
direction. “When it subsided, the country affected by it, for a long time 
lay waste and uninhabited , but, subsequently, by degrees, it began to be re¬ 
peopled. As the Mughals from the direction of Balkh and Kabul made 
incursions into the Panj-ab territory nearly every year, the country did 
not soon recover: it continued in a state of ruin, and so remained, paying 
little or no revenue, until the time of Sultan Bahlul, the Lodi Af gh an, and 
first Patan who ruled in Hindustan, who made Tattar Khan feudatory of 
the Lahor province, at which time Ra’e Ram-Diw, the Bhati, farmed the 
whole Panj-ab [the Labor province is most likely meant, but such are 
the author’s words] for nine lakhs of tangahs , 406 This Ram-Diw sub¬ 
sequently became a Mussulman, and this greatly conduced to his rise. 
In the year 887 H., and 1522 of Bikramajit [1488 A. D.], he, with Tattar 
Khan’s sanction, founded Patialah, the site of which, at that period, was 
a jangal waste. The first place selected was a pushtah or mound; but 
the omens regarding this site not being deemed propitious, it was aban¬ 
doned, and another pushtah chosen, the same on which Patialah now 
stands. The word patialah means dunbdlah [signifying ‘after,’ ‘be¬ 
hind,’ etc.], referring to the subsequent selection of its site.” 
Others say its name is “ S'atadru, of the hundred channels,” and others again, 
“ S'atadru, of the hundred bellies.” 
These terms may have been applied to it on account of its repeatedly forming 
new channels. 
Of silver, equal to about four Idkhs and a half of rti'pfs. See Thomas’s 
“ Pathan Coins,” p. 369. 
