1892.] H. G. Raverty— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. 455 
At a place called Jangan ten miles below Kban Garh above referred 
to, the channel of the Hakra, the old Mihran of Sind, turns towards 
the south for some miles, and then returns to the general course of south¬ 
west again, and becomes less marked than before, but distinctly trace¬ 
able. This part is full of banks, and is seamed with channels of 
greater or less depth, indicating the action of water, plainly showing, 
that, hereabouts, it has changed its course from east to west, and from 
one side of its channel, more or less, several times. 619 Indeed, between 
Wanjh-rut and Din Garh or Triliarah, one hundred and twenty miles 
to the north-east, and between Khan Garh to within a few miles of 
Birsil-pur in the territory of Jasal-mir, a tract just one hundred and 
thirty-two miles in breadth, 520 is perfectly seamed with channels and 
high banks caused by the action of water, through the shiftings of the 
course of the Hakra and its tributary, the Sutlaj, on one side, and the 
tributaries from the side of Jasal-mir, referred to at pages 425 and 434, 
on the other, in the progress of the Hakra towards the ocean, under the 
process described in the first paragraph of note 446, page 415. It, 
however, continues to run in the same general direction from Jangan 
for some distance farther, and then bends south-westwards, then south 
for a few miles, then south-west again, in which direction it runs as 
far down as Mitharo or Mithraho, 621 forty-eight miles east-south-east 
of Rurhi, when it bends westwards for a little over sixteen miles, and 
then meets the channel of its old western branch, which flowed about 
ten miles still farther west before it Avas diverted from the direction 
of Aror by a dyke erected about twenty-six miles to the east of that 
place. The present channel, or the remains of this western or diverted 
branch, is the Ra’in or Ra’ini, which appears in our maps as “ Dry 
bed of the Rainee Nullah.” 
to Nowakote the Karra is termed Hakra in this part of the country,” and, that it 
“skirts the foot of the Thurr [the district of the Thar or Thai and Parkar is meant].” 
Also, that “ the Hakra continues to skirt the foot of the Thurr for about thirty 
miles, after which it joins the Pooraun [Puranah] below Wang a Bazar.” He also 
mentions the numerous ruins of masjids near the villages, “ which latter are all, 
apparently, of modern construction.” 
This last statement is hardly correct; for some of them are, unquestionably, 
of ancient date. All along the course of the Hakra or Wahindah from Marut to 
the sea, are the remains of numbers of towns formerly of considerable importance, 
but which have gone to decay through the change in the course of that river. The 
large scale Revenue Survey maps will show what a number there are. 
619 See note 563, page 482. 
620 See page 483. 
621 The “ Mitarhoe,” “ Mitrahoo,” “ Mitrahu,” and “ Mitrao,” of as many 
different maps. 
