1892.] H. G. Raverty —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 411 
thence about four miles north-west of Bhatindah. 438 and on towards 
Mal-ot, three miles east of which the channel becomes very distinct 
again. From Mal-ot, which is a short distance to the north of its 
right bank, it continues to run to Uboh-har, which is close to its south 
or left bank. At present, higher up, a canal is to be brought into 
this channel from the Sahrind canal system, if it is not actually run¬ 
ning at this time. 
The direction of the central of the three old channels, called 
“ Uyewal H.” and “ Dubwali N\” in the maps, takes a course somewhat 
more to the south-south-west than that just noticed ; but, although its 
channel is not quite so distinct upwards, it also comes from the direction 
of Ruh-par and Oham-kaur, at which former point, or near it it 
branched off, and can be traced into Budhur, 439 just thirty miles to the 
north-eastwards of Bhatindah, nearly thirty-two miles above Dab-Wali, 
and some thirty-eight miles in the direction of south-south-west from 
Akharah. It passes close to Dab-Wali on the north, and Fath-pur on 
the south, and subsequently bends towards the west, and unites with 
the channel passing Mal-ot and Uboh-har. 
The third or easternmost of these old channels evidently came 
from the same direction as the other two, as the slope of the country 
which declines from north-east to south-west, and the direction of the 
channel show. 440 At present it is not very distinct, for the reason pre- 
4>33 Bhatindah, which is a very ancient place, I believe to be the identical place 
referred to, the idol temple of which “ split asunder on the night that Sultan 
Mahmud-i-Sabuk-Tigin was born,” and not Uhand on the west bank of the Ab-i- 
Sind or Indus above Atak, miscalled “ Ohind.” It will be remembered that the 
Hakra is also called the Wahind and Wahindah, and the temple is called “ the 
But-Khanah of Wahind.” See Tabak&t-i-N&siri, p. 76, and note 2. 
The Tarikh-i-Yammf, in the account of Sultan Mahmud’s victory over “ Brah¬ 
man-Pal, son of Anand Pal,” states, that they met on the banks of the “ Wahind 
river ” ; and, in another place, it is related in the account of the capture of Kal- 
Chand’s stronghold, which seems to refer to one of the old ruined fortresses on the 
banks of the Hakra or Wahindah, between Bhatnir and Wal-har, that “ a foaming 
river flowed on the other side of the fortress,” and that “ the infidels, in attempting 
to cross it,” were drowned in great numbers. See page 415. 
439 “ Budhaur ” of the maps, to the north-eastwards of Bhatindah, not the place 
about eighteen miles east of Bhatindah. 
440 In his “ Ancient Geography of India” (p. 144), Cunningham, referring to 
the “ district of Satadru ”—the “ She-to-tu-lo or Satadru, described by the Chinese 
pilgrim as having a large river on its western boundary”— says : “ the position of 
Satadru will correspond almost exactly with the large city of Sarhind or frontier 
of Hind’.” 
“ Sarhind,” however, is not the correct name of this place, neither is “ Sirhind.” 
It is Sahrind and that does not mean “ frontier of Hind.” 
