3892.] H. Gr. Raver fy— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries . 457 
the east, as already mentioned. 523 These re-uniting below the present 
Sayyidah, flowed in a slower current a little to the west of south, for 
a distance of about forty-eight miles as the crow flies; and just forty 
miles above Mansuriyah, near which latter place was “ old Bahman-abad” 
(not meaning, of course, that there were two Bahman-abads, but 
Bahman-nih, or Bahman-no, or Bahman-abad, and Mansuriyah, or, as 
they were then styled, “Bahman-no — Mansuriyah”), they again 
separated into two branches. This place of separation one author 
( Al-Istakhari) states, was near Kalari, 524 which was one day’s jour¬ 
ney from Mansuriyah. Kalari was two days’ journey from Anari, 
which was four days’ journey from Aror, which was three days’ 
journey from Basmid, which was situated at about two days’ journey 
from Multan ; but the Masalik wa Mamalik, and Ibn Haukal make the 
distance from Anari to Kalari four days’ journey instead of three. 526 
Al-Idrisi calls the distance from Kalari on the west bank, to Man¬ 
suriyah “ a hard day’s ride of forty mil (miles).” One of these 
branches, the easternmost or main branch, flowed in a southerly direc¬ 
tion as before, and passed under the walls of Mansuriyah (and near 
Bahman-abad), which was situated on the west side, subsequently 
taking a more easterly course — about south-south-east—for some dis¬ 
tance, and then resuming its almost direct southerly course to Wangah ; 
and this channel is represented by the Puranah Dhorah, or as the 
Sindis call it, the Purano Dhorof 26 or Ancient Channel, to this day. 
62S See note 578, page 502. 
6S4 Kalari, or whatever may be the correct word, was without doubt, near the 
point of separation of the Mihran of Sind into two branches, just forty miles above 
Mansuriyah. Al-Idrisi says it lay on the west bank, and it was apparently 
situated some miles above the low lying and now marshy tract near to Jakr&o, which 
latter place is just twenty-seven miles above Bahman-abad and Mansuriyah, See 
page 213, and note 138. 
625 From Mansuriyah to Aror, the ancient capital of Sind, if the words 
andjj^of the old writers be meant for it, is just six stages of twenty 
miles each. 
526 In Hindi, the word — dhau —means ‘deep,’ also ‘deep water,’ and 
another signification assigned to it is ‘a marsh,’ or ‘ morass.’ The Sindi dhoro is 
probably derived from the first meanings. 
Mr. W. A. Hughes, the compiler of the “ Gazetteer of Sind,” says (page 2) : 
“ Local tradition affirms that a portion of the Rann was once a highly cultivated 
tract, known by the name of Sayra [See Wilford in note, 553 page 477], a branch of 
the river Indus [he mistakes the Hakra for the Indus] then reaching it, but that 
it disappeared altogether when either the Sindians or a convulsion of nature 
diverted the waters from it.” He is so very careful as to or, but he could not have 
understood the tradition properly. Immediately after he says : “ To this day, the 
upper part of the Kori mouth of the Indus [the Kohra’i mouth of the Hakra is 
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