430 H. G. Raverty —The Mihr&n of Sind and its Tributaries. [Ex. No. 
south-west, it is but fifteen miles distant; and the face of the country 
between indicates plainly the action of water towards Din Garb and 
beyond. Farther south-west, this old channel of the Sutlaj approaches 
still nearer to that of the Hakra, as will presently be shown. 
Near the ruins of the fort of IQiair Garh, thirty-six miles and a half 
below Dilawar or Dirawar, in the midst of the long, narrow banks and 
channels before referred to, the old bed of the Sutlaj, which is distant 
only nine miles farther west, becomes less distinctly defined, and banks 
and channels from it, extending for many miles, become mixed up with 
those of the Hakra, until, near the forts of Baglila and Sahib Garh, 
twenty-four miles lower down than Khair Garh, their traces merge into 
one, showing very clearly that they once united hereabouts at the Dosh- 
i-Ab, or Waters’ Meet, before noticed. Near Baglila. the channel of the 
Hakra again becomes clearly defined, and that fort, as well as Sahib 
Garh, lies close to its right or western bank, the channel here being 
nearly two miles in breadth. Six miles lower down, the channel bends 
a little more towards the south, and afterwards resumes its general 
course of south-west; and under the name of “ Rainee Nullah” 467 in 
our various maps, but known to the natives as the Waliind, Wahin- 
dah, or Hakra, and being from four to five miles from bank to bank, it 
Kandharah (the Kandliaro of the Sindis), Liarah, and Khan Garh, all 
three forts being on its eastern or left bank, into Upper Sind. Here I 
will, for the present, leave it, and turn back towards the old beds of 
other rivers, which in by-gone times were its tributaries, and which, 
even now, during the rainy season, contribute some water to it. 
The Sursuti, the ancient Saraswati. 
Next in rotation to the Oliitang on the west is the Sursuti, 463 the 
ancient Saraswati, which, like the first named river, rises in the 
4 & 7 Styled “ Nullah,” perhaps, because, in some places, the channel or river bed 
is some four or five miles broad ; and never less, I believe, up to this point at least, 
than a mile broad. 
46? The “ Soorsuttee Nud ” of the maps. The tract of country lying on either 
side of the banks of the Sursuti or Saraswati, extending from Thani-sar to Se-wan, 
six miles N. N. W. of Kaithal, and embracing a circuit of about sixty kuroh, is the 
most sacred part of Hind from the Hindu point of view, and was known as Bramlia- 
warta, or the abode of the gods. Herein, likewise, the Pandus and the Kurus met 
in battle, hence it is known as Kur-Khet or Kur-Khet, and Kur-Ohhatr. Abu-1- 
Fazl says that this battle, the subject of the Maha-Bharata, took place just 4831 
years before the last year of Akbar Badshah’s reign, which would be just 6721 years 
ago, or only 827 years before the world was created according to the chronology of 
our Bible, a mere trifle in Hindu chronology. This sacred part of the Hindus con¬ 
tains upwards of three hundred and sixty places of worship or devotion, and the 
most sacred of them all are Thani-sar and Pehu’a. 
