1892.] H. G. Raverty —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 393 
I may mention that the author, as well as being* a native of Pati- 
alah, was also a revenue official of the Mu gh al Empire in the reign of 
Aurang-zeb-i- ’Alam-gir Badshah. 
It may be noticed here in connection with this great flood, that 
Amir Timur having reached Bharah on the Jihlam, and defeated the 
Tammlmi, 407 Mubarak Shah, which place, as the crow flies, is about two 
hundred and fifty-six miles from Samanah by Labor, instead of taking 
the direct route, he marched towards Multan, one hundred and seventy- 
six miles in a direct line, or thirty-two miles farther from Samanah 
than Bharah is. True, his grandson, the Mirza, Pir Muhammad, was 
at Multan, and wanted help in the shape of horses to enable him to 
move, but he might have joined his grandfather at Labor by Debal-pur 
as easily perhaps as joining him on the Biah, or the Amir might have 
detached a portion of his army to his assistance ; for Amir Timur did 
not go to Multan 408 from Tulambali, but marched to the Biah direct. 
It will be noticed that his grandson also came into the Panj-ab by a 
southern route, as did Taramshirin Khan, to whom Amir Timur refers 
with respect to bridging the united Bihat or Jihlam and Chin-ab by 
means of boats. I imagine that the choice of a more southern route, 
in preference to the direct one by Labor, by Amir Timur and the others, 
was, in some way, connected with the desolate state of the Labor terri¬ 
tory, or northern Panj-ab, occasioned by this great flood, mentioned by 
the author I have quoted, and for the reasons he gives. 
We know from the historian of Amir Timur’s campaign, that the 
Chin-ab passed on the west side of Multan at that time, but what had 
become of the Sutlaj is not so clear. It is certain that the Rawi still 
united with the Biah, and passed Multan as heretofore on the east, and 
that the Biah still flowed in its old bed. It is also very evident, that, 
if Amir Timur had had to cross the Sutlaj in going from Ajuddhan 
(afterwards ealled the Pak Pattan) to Bhatnir we should have heard 
of it, especially if it contained its usual volume of water, or its previ¬ 
ous volume; for it was unfordable as far up as Ludhianah and Tiharah 409 
during the operations against Jasrath, the Khokhar, in 825 H. (1422 
A, D.), 410 until the cold season set in, but it was still unfordable farther 
4.07 The Bam Tammim, were powerful in Sind from the time of the ’Arab 
conquest, several of its members, being governors under the Khalffahs. Mubarak 
Shah was one of that ’Arab tribe, still independent some seven centuries later. 
See note 315, page 324. 
4i0S Moreover, he does not appear to have cared for Multan, for he left no troops 
to occupy it, and seems simply to have abandoned it to any one who might choose to 
seize it. 
409 Then on the bank of the Sutlaj. 
410 See page 278. 
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