1892.] H. G. Raverty —The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. 405 
Another old channel of the Sntlaj requires to be noticed here, 
which runs still farther east than this dandah. It commences a little 
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to the west of Ruh-par, from whence it takes a south-westerly course, 
passes within a short distance of “ Chumkour ” (six miles east of 
Baklul-pur) and “ Kuliralla ” of the maps, aud disappears after a 
distance of twenty-five miles. Of this ancient channel of the Sutlaj, 
either the “ Eastern Nyewal,” or the “ Dulwali ISTyewal ” of the maps, 
is the continuation. More on this subject will be found in the account 
of the Hakra or Waliindali farther on. 
Rennell, in his “ Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan,” published in 
1793, gives a map of the “countries between Delhi and Candahar; ” 
and he makes the Hariari, under the name of “ Kerah ” (he meant 
the Gharah, no doubt) turn southwards between Firuz-pur and 
Kasur, which, after passing close to Ajuddhan (which it never did) on 
the east, 427 fifteen miles beyond it, throws off a branch more to the 
westward which re-unites with the Biah. Lower down still, another 
branch (making four instead of three), which is made to unite with 
the previous one near Kot Kabulah ; while the Sutlaj under the name 
of “ Dena ” (for Dandah) is made to bend more towards the west below 
Ajuddhan. This likewise, south of Multan, is made to unite again 
old bed of the Biah. Indeed, there is a tradition that it did make the attempt 
near Firuz-pur, but, meeting with some obstruction, turned aside again. There is 
no doubt but that water might be again brought into the bed of the old Biah, by a 
cut higher up stream. 
427 Cunningham (“Ancient India ”) makes the “ old Bias ” pass some sixteen 
miles west of Debal-pur, but the extreme right high bank, beyond which it was 
physically impossible it could pass, is nowhere more than eleven miles north-west 
of Debal-pur; and the old bed, that is, the old bed now traceable, and the last in 
which it flowed independently before uniting with the Sultaj in the last century, is 
less than five miles distant from Debal-pur. He places the old bed in the middle 
of the tract of country between his Hyphasis , and Zaradrus, or Hesudrus, or Satadru ; 
for he has all these names, while the most recent channel of the Sultaj before 
its junction with the Biali, called the “ Danda ” in our maps, and which I have 
described previously, is called the “ old Sutlej .” I should call it the “ young ” 
Sutlaj, because it is the most recent, and after its junction with the Biah it was 
no more the Sultaj. I conceive that in whatever channel it might have flowed it 
was still the “ Zaradrus, or Hesudrus, or Satadru,” since it would not change 
its name with taling to a new channel as long as it flowed independently . See last 
paragraph of note 420, p. 398, note 390, page 381, and note 345, page 343. 
Alexander’s march is traced, in Cunningham’s work, by “ Kot Kamalia, Tulanba, 
and Multanand from thence downwards, his route is made to follow the banks of 
the rivers as they at present fiow ; as likewise Hwen Thsang’s route from Shor Kot 
along the banks of the Chin-ab, as it at present flows, by “Multan, Ueb, and 
Mithan-kot,” as though they had never altered for twenty-two centuries, and so on 
into Sind to Karachi. 
