1892.] H. Gr. Raverty —The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. 461 
period, a constant stream of some sort flowed therein, and of some 
depth. The wording of the treaty entered into by 'Nadir Shah and 
Muhammad Shah, Badshah of Dihli, tends to indicate, that, even at 
this period, 1152 H. (1739 A.D.), the river had not altogether ceased 
to flow. 629 
Even of late years, its waters, from as far northwards as the 
Bahawal-pur territory, have occasionally reached the ocean or very near 
it. In 1826 a flood from the river reached Lakh Pat. In 1833 a flood 
passed down as far as Wangali Bazar; and, in 1843, Major W. Baker 
of the Engineers, Superintendant of Canals in Sind, saw, near the 
head of the channel of the Narah branch, the marks of flood which 
had risen eighteen feet, and to which, the Ra’in. or Ra’ini branch of 
the Hakra or Wahindah contributed a considerable portion. The Pura- 
nah Dhorah appears to have once flowed between its present channel 
and the one now called the “ Eastern Nara ” by English writers ; for 
the remains of it still exist. There can be little doubt, but that it 
shifted constantly from one side to another; and as most of these 
channels have not been subject to regular inundations for some cen¬ 
turies past, and only obtain a comparatively small portion of water when 
the rivers farther north overflow, they have not been subjected to violent 
changes. 
There can be no doubt, that the subsequent diversion of one of 
the branches of the Mihran of Sind—the lla’in or Ra’ini—which 
united into one great river at Dosli-i-Ab, must, in some measure, have 
upset almost the whole river system of Sind so to say, and that that 
diversion caused, not immediately perhaps, the stream farther to the 
south to forsake the puranah or ancient channel for the present existing 
channel by Amar Kot, and was the cause of the other, which ran to¬ 
wards Siw-istan, and which again united with the other branch some 
distance below Mansuriyali, ceasing to flow altogether. 580 
629 The water in these dhands or lakes is the water of the Hakra in reality, 
which finds its way down in time of extensive floods from as far upwards as the 
middle of the Bahawal-pur territory, but some also comes from the overflow of the 
A'b-i-Sind or Indus, which finds its way by the great depression, the old channel of 
the Panch Nad when it was a tributary of the Hakra, into the present Narah channel 
lower down, but this is not much. 
630 Alexander, having left the confluence of the three united rivers, Hyphasis, 
Acesines, and Hydraotes, with the Indus, as related in the previous note 361, page 
366, sails down the Indus, according to the Greek writers—but according to the 
courses of the rivers in ancient times, down the Hakra or Wahindah, after the 
junction of the Panch Nad or Panj Ab rivers, including the Ab-i-Sind or Indus, with 
it at Dosh-i-Ab—to the dominions of Musicanus, which, according to Strabo, “was 
the most southerly part of India as described by Onesicritus, who minutely describes 
