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and cultivation, and yet does not say what river this water came from. 
It was, however, the Sntlaj, which then flowed in the Uboh-liar channel 
and was a tributary of the Hakra. It was shortly after Amir Timur’s 
time that the Sutlaj formed a new channel for itself, now represented 
by the great dandah or high bank, between the Uboh-har channel and 
the present Hariari or Nili. After that again, the rivers Biah. and 
Sutlaj, by uniting at Loh, Loh-Wal, or Lohi-Wal, 414 above Biruz-pur, 
formed the Hariari, Hiirni, or Hill, as described by Abu-l-Fazl. This 
junction was temporary, however, for they again separated a few miles 
east of Debal-pur, and, on this occasion, separated into three branches 
the Biah returning to its old bed again, and the Sutlaj bending south¬ 
wards regaining its former channel likewise, and each regaining there 
former names. The third branch, was smaller and insignificant, compared 
with the other two, and, under the name of Dandali passed between 
Ajuddhan and Khalis Kotlah, almost parallel with the Biah until about 
midway between Lohdran and Jalal-pur in the Multan district. Having 
thus flowed apart for about one hundred kuroh , the Biah and Sutlaj 
again united 415 —the Dandah had previously united with the latter a 
little farther up stream — and losing their names once more, formed the 
Gliallu-Gharah or Gharah, and finally united with the Sindhu or Ab-i- 
Sind near U'chchh-i-Sharif. The intermediate channel is represented 
4 G Cunningham (“ Ancient India,” page 210, etc.), says, that, “for centuries 
before the present confluence of the Bias and Sutlej, the point of junction was 
just above Bhao hi Patan, between Kasur and Firuzpur. This junction is mentioned 
by Jauhar, A.D. 1555,” etc. This is a mistake: neither in Stewart’s translation of 
the work of Johar, the Ewer-bearer of Humayun Badshah, nor in the original , is 
there a word about Bhao ki Patan. The word is (see page 372), which some have 
mistaken for —without a point thus—All that Johar says (I quote Stewart’s 
translation here, because it is that which Cunningham follows) is (page 112) : “ The 
chiefs that had been sent to Jallindhar having crossed the Sutlege, and passed 
through Machwareh [this is how Stewart writes Machhi Warah], entered the district 
of Sirhind [Sahrind he means] and on the next page, that, “ Information having 
been brought to the king that Omer Khan Ghicker [Gliakar], having collected a 
very large force at Fyruzpur [Firuz-pur], ivhich is situated at the junction of the 
Beyah and Sutlege rivers.” There is nothing more except, that, “ about this time 
the Afghans marked out a ford across the Sutlege opposite the town of Machwareh 
* # # By ram Khan crossed the river by the very ford the Afghans had marked 
out # # * Accordingly the king crossed the Sutlege at Machwareh, and joined the 
army at Sirhind,” etc. 
Now “ Booh,” as it appears in the maps, and is what has been mistaken by 
Cunningham for Bhao, is twenty-three miles above Machhi Warah, and a conple of 
miles noi'th-west of llari ke Patan; a few miles north-east of which, higher u.p still 
the confluence took place in 1874. See note 214, page 278. 
See page 372. 
