412 H. G. Raverty —The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. [Ex. No. 
viously mentioned, until within about seven or eight miles north-west 
of the fort of Bliiki, where ifc runs nearly parallel to the central or Dab- 
Wall channel with an interval of from eight to ten miles between them, 
to within nine miles north-east of Bhatnir. Here it becomes less dis¬ 
tinct, but it united with the Ghag-gliar near the fortress of Bhatnir on 
the north side, and subsequently with the Hakra or Waliindah twenty- 
one miles farther to the south-west. Into this channel, likewise, a 
canal has been brought from near Ruh-par : in fact, these canals, it may 
be said, or their proposed extensions, will run all the way, or nearly so, 
in these ancient channels of the Sutlaj. 441 
The channel of the Hakra or Waliindah, after this junction, is clear 
and distinct, and has been already described ; but, the channel of the 
united Uboh-har and Dab-Wall branches, which unite near Karar- 
Walali, about twenty-nine miles below Uboh-har in the direction of 
south-west, and nearly eleven miles north-west of Ganes Garh, is, in 
some places, not quite so distinctly apparent, but can still be traced to 
Then, because this “large river ” does not appear at present, although the 
position corresponded “almost exactly” with his “ Sarhind,” Hans! is thought of, 
by applying “ a correction” of only 110 miles; but this, too, not being quite 
satisfactory, he adds : “ as it was bounded on the west by a great river which 
cannot be the Satlej or Satadru, it is quite impossible that Hansi can be the place 
intended, as it is upwards of 130 miles distant from the nearest river. 
There is nothing in what the Chinese pilgrim says to prevent Sahrind being 
the place referred to, because, when the Sutlaj or Satadru flowed in the oldest 
channel that we know of, which I have here pointed out, it flowed not more than 
seventeen or eighteen miles west of Sahrind ; and the Sutlaj or Satadru is said 
to have formed the boundary between the territory of the Panj-ab and Hindustan. 
Hansi now is certainly distant from any great river, but at the period of the 
Chinese pilgrim, and long after his time, the Ckitang, which, with the Sarsuti or 
Saraswati, formed the Hakra or Wahindah, was a great river, and flowed within a 
few miles of Hansi; and the Ghag-ghar, also a great river in those days, and the 
Sarsuti or Saraswati by no means a small river, both flotved within tiventy-three miles 
of Hansi. 
In one of his Archaeological Reports, Cunningham says, that, “ Satadru or 
Sirliind in the plains formed part of the states of the Rajput Kings of Kangra,” 
which Mr. Barnes, the Settlement Officer of that district, discredits. 
The Editor of Elliots’ Indian Historians (VoL 1Y. p. 519) tells us, that, 
“ Tabarhinda is an old name for Sirhind,” in which I beg most distinctly to differ 
from him. 
4,4,1 The ancient channel of nearly all these tributaries of the Hakra, mentioned 
herein, have been, or are being, utilized as canals, sometimes without its being 
generally known what rivers once flowed in them. Very shortly, therefore, all the 
ancient traces of them will be obliterated or altogether lost. See note 496 } page 442 
whei'e some of the causes of the decrease in the volume of the Ghag-ghar are 
mentioned. 
