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kuroh they re-unite. 418 In the part where this fresh junction takes place, 
in the rainy season, on occasion of the slightest swell, the river over¬ 
flows its banks, and the waters spread out for a distance of several 
kuroli on either side—for the banks are low and consist of soft, alluvial 
earth—fertilizing the country thereby. In this part the united stream 
is known to the people as the Gballu-Gharah, or Gharah, and ISTili ; and 
the tract of country along its banks on either side is known as the 
Ohhoti Kachohhi. 419 Continuing its course, and having passed U'chchli- 
i-Sharif, just below it, it unites with the A'b-i-Sind.” 
Sncli was the united river towards the close of the last century, 
yet what changes have we here, to judge from the present P 
Without noticing the turns and windings of the Sutlaj in former 
times north of its present channel more than I have done, which are 
413 The author of the article on the “ Lost River ” in the “ Calcutta Review,” 
previously noticed, states (page 13), that “in the Ain-i-Akbari, the united Sutlej 
and Biyas is said (A. D. 1596) to flow in four streams, which meet near Multan. 
Of the names given Har, Hari, Nurnai, and Dhund, the latter is the only one known 
at present.” 
This is a great mistake: the A’in-i-Akbari contains nothing of this kind, as 
may be seen from the original text. The writer must have seen some statement of 
this kind, in Gladwin’s translation perhaps; for the account in the original coincides 
precisely with what I have mentioned at page 296, that the united river is known 
by those three names, not that there are three rivers, much less four. 
Perhaps Rennell obtained his four streams from the same source. See page 405. 
The “ Calcutta Review ” writer also states, that, “ the two rivers Sutlej and 
Bivas did not meet (in Arrian and Strabo’s days) until they reached the Rann of 
Each.” I do not think any of these names will be found mentioned by the writers 
referred to. 
419 Eachchh— not ‘Each”—means silt or alluvium thrown up and left by 
water, and rivers, after inundations. The name of the level tract north and north¬ 
west of Shikar-pur, and the territory on the sea coast, called Eachchh and 
Eachchh- Bhuj, is derived from the same word, referring to their original formation. 
The banks of a river where such deposits are left, are so called ; and “ both banks 
of the Gharah and Hariari or Nili, for a distance of about eighty Tcuroh or more in 
length,” according to the Survey record above referred to, “ with a breadth of 
from five to six Tcuroh, is called Ohhoti Eachchhi. The cultivation of this tract 
depends on the inundations of the river. On the southern bank is some small 
extent of jangal, and beyond, the chid or desert. On the northern bank, beyond the 
lut Ghoh h of the Nili Bar, the jangal \$ so dense that a horseman cannot get through 
it, and even a man on foot penetrates it with great difficulty. Each beshcih (forest) 
has a separate name, one of which is Nekali Kand; and in time of necessity, the 
people, who are Jats, take shelter in them.” In the Sanskrit, means ‘ bush/ 
‘ copse * and the like. See note 360, page 363. The northern side of this alluvial 
tract is also known as the Shamali Eachchhi Doabah. 
