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1892.] H. a. R averty —The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. 
tlie Sutlaj flowed independently to unite with the Hakra becomes 
mixed up with the channels of that river, the whole country for several 
miles between Klian-pur and Khair Garh being seamed with channels 
and banks formed by the action of water. Indeed, a space of some 
forty miles to within a short distance of Path Garh or Kowa Kot 
farther east, and farther south-west into Sind, is literally covered with 
these traces of the rivers Sutlaj and Hakra until they again unite 
so to say, between Khan-pur and Khair Garh ; and the dry channel of 
the latter river, which appears in the maps as the “ broad, dry bed 
of the Rainee Nullah or Wahind,” becomes, near Baghlah and Sahib 
Garh, more distinctly defined, and near which, at the Dosh-i-Ab, or 
“ Meeting Place of Waters,” in ancient times, the Sindhu or Ab-i-Sind, 
and the JEtud-i-Sind wo Hind (which it had joined above LTqhqhh), united 
with the Hakra, and the Mihran of Sind was formed. 
“ Likewise, from the eastward of the Burj-i-Bakhlio Jat (the 
“ Pk Boorj,” and “ Bicha Boorj ” of the maps, apparently) on the 
way to Hindon, another old bed exists, which is also said to have once 
been the bed of the Sutlaj ; while at Rahun, farther north, close to 
which place it formerly ran, and now four miles north of the present 
channel, there is a large lake three or four lmroh in length, which, it 
is stated by the people of these parts, was once part of the old bed 
of the Sutlaj.” 
“ The erection of this domed chamber and entrance is ascribed to the saint, 
Nizam-ud-Din, Ahmad, the Buda’uni, and it is said, that he repeated the whole of the 
Kur’an over every brick of which it was built. Close to the Bihishti entrance, on the 
east side, there are about 2,000 or 3,000 bricks, which were left after the comple¬ 
tion of the dome, and these were subsequently used in the erection of a sort of 
chabutarah [a raised platform or seat] about the height of a man. The east 
entrance to the shrine is kept open at all times for people to pass to and fro. It 
is stated, that, when Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din, Tughlnk Shah, made a pilgrimage to 
the shrine, he was desirous of removing the domed building over the tomb, and, 
erecting another, but the saint having appeared to him in a dream forbidding it, 
he desisted, and, instead, erected another lofty one of bricks and mortar, near by 
on the east side. In that building eleven descendants of the saint are buried, who 
succeeded to his prayer-carpet. The above-mentioned Badshah, likewise, founded 
a large masjid on the west side of the shrine of the saint; and between it and 
the masjid, there is a small chamber or cell roofed with wood, containing two tombs 
and a rest-house for travellers to the south, adjoining the walls of the fort. All 
these buildings can be seen from the south for a distance of three or four Jcuroh. 
“ The shrine of Hazrat, Shah Badr, who was the son-in-law, and disciple of 
the saint, the Shaikh, the Farid-ul-Millat-wa-ud-Din, is situated adjoining the 
Shahidi Darwazah, and is covered with a brick-built dome. Formerly, the town 
was not enclosed within walls, but in the year 1190 H. (1776 A. D.), Pfr Sublian, 
erected a wall all round of kiln-burnt brick, in which were five gateways, and three 
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