1892.] G. H. Raverty— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. 449 
Salirind and Patialali, and does not reacli within five miles and a half 
of Patialali on the west; passes two miles and a half west of Samanah, 
and eight miles west of Badshah-pur; runs towards the south, and 
unites with the Ghag-ghar two miles and a half south-east of Mur.g 
A'hi. Another new river from the north, which runs eight miles and 
a half east of Salirind, and seven and a half west of Raj-purali (which, 
north of Patialali, appears in the maps as the “ Putt&alawalee RivT), 
and which is joined by the Unbhala five miles north of Patialali, is 
the only river which at present passes near that city, and immediately 
north of which it appears to run in the old bed of the Ohuwwa, 
which used to flow close under the walls of both Salirind and Patialali 
on the east. It is entered in the maps, below the latter city, a,s the 
Konsilla N. ; ” and passes four miles east of Samanah (the old Ohuwwa 
passed one mile west of it), and unites with the Ghag-ghar, which 
formerly ran under its walls on the east ; but, the nearest point at 
which it approaches that place now is six miles farther east. 
To continue the Survey account. 
“ North of the Ghag-ghar, after the Sursuti and other tributaries 
unite with it, and between it and the Ohuwwa proper, is a tract cf 
country, often mentioned in history, and known as the Lakhhi Jangal. 
It is nearly thirty kuroh in length, and somewhat less in breadth, con¬ 
sisting of excess of sandy tracts ; and there is great paucity of water. 
Its name is said to be derived from Lakhhi, son of Jundharali, who 
belonged to the Bliati tribe. During one of the invasions of Hind by 
Sultan Mahmud-i-Sabuk-Tigin, he became a convert to Islam, and ac¬ 
quired the title of It ana — Ran a Lakhhi. He obtained a number of 
’Arab horses; 514 and with a considerable following of the Bhati tribe, 
who paid obedience to him, he was induced to take up his residence in 
this dasht , and was there established for the purpose of holding in 
check and harassing the Hindu idol-worshippers of the country 
614 It might have been expected that the horses of Sind would have been good 
ones, from the infusion of ’Arab blood. The ’Arab conquerors must have brought 
numbers of horses into the country from time to time, and we might naturally have 
expected to find the breed of Sind horses good, but the contrary is the case : the 
horse of Sind is a miserable animal, whereas those of the Lakhhi jangal or Lakh-Wal, 
and Harianali, generally, are good. 
The “Memoirs of George Thomas” states (page 132), that, “adjoining the 
province of Beykaneer is the district called the Laclcy jungle, so much, and so de¬ 
servedly celebrated for the fertility of its pasture lands, and for a breed of excellent 
horses of the highest estimation in India. The Lacky jungle is comprised within 
the district of Batinda, forming a circle of 24 kosses of the country each way. On 
the ‘ N.’ it is bounded by the country of Roy Kelaun, E. by the province of Ilari- 
anah, b. by Batiner, and W. by the great desert.” 
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