1892.] H. Or. Raverty— The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 459 
bent round again in the form almost of a half circle or bow towards 
Siw-istan, but did not approach nearer to it than about twenty-two 
miles, and, in after times, within about sixteen. 627 The channel of this 
branch, I believe to be represented by the present Mir Wa-hah or 
Mir’s Canal, it having been utilized as such, and which now flows just 
seventeen miles east of Siliwan, the Siw-istan of former days. This 
branch, after passing east of that place, performing its half circle course, 
again bent towards the south-east, and re-united with the main branch 
about twelve miles below Mansuriyah, and reached the ocean by one 
mouth, known as the Khora’i—the “Kori” of the maps and Gazetteers— 
separating Sind from Kachchli. It is not to be supposed that there 
was no change whatever in the direction of the channels ; for every 
inundation made some change probably, as in the case of the channels 
of the rivers of the Panj Ab territory and Sind at the present day, but 
no radical change occurred for some time. Subsequently, but in com¬ 
paratively modern times, I think, because the Mihran of Sind passed 
near Mansuriyah when Ahmad-i-Nial-Tigm was drowned therein in 
the reign of Sultan Mas’ud of Ghaznin (see page 196, note 105), the 
main branch, from the point of junction near Kalari, took a course 
more to the east of south, and ran towards Amar Kot of the Sodahs, 
between which two places occur those numerous great dhands or lakes 
mentioned farther on. It then passed from ten to fifteen miles or more 
purdnah dhorah above referred to], which, to this day, receives water from the 
Garrah or Sutledge [the usual error : he really refers to the Hakra of which the 
Sutlaj was once a tributary], by a channel known by the name of Narri [the Nara 
of Hughes]. I have heard of the Nirgullee [ ? ] and the Hagra [Hakra] on the 
west, and the Loni in the east,” etc., etc. 
Cunningham, in his “Ancient India” (page 251), also mistakes'the channel of 
the Hakra for the “ old bed ” of the Indus. He says : “The old bed of the Indus 
still exists under the name of Nava, and its course has been surveyed, etc. # # 
The most easterly channel, which retains the name Nara runs to the S. E. by 
Kipra and Umrkot.” 
He, however, reverses matters, and makes the Puranah Dliorah run into the Indus , 
from S. E. to N. W., instead of into the channel of the Hakra as it does do. He 
says : “ The most westerly [ ! ] channel, which is named Purana or the “ Old River,” 
flows to the south-south-west , past the ruins of Brahmanabad and Nasirpur to 
Raidarabad , below which it divides into two branches # * * one turns S. W. and falls 
into the present river 15 miles below Haidarabad and above Jarak. The other called 
the Guni turns S. E. and joins the Nara above Runaka Bazar,” etc., etc. 
Dr. J. Burnes, in his account of Sind, says (page 21), that, previous to the year 
1762, the Puranah emptied itself into the sea by passing Lakh-pat and Kotasir ; 
and no doubt he is right. 
62? This was the distance when Mfr Ma’sum of Bakhar wrote, about the year 
1600 A.D. 
