466 H. G. Raverty —The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. [Ex. No. 
from that channel, in time of flood in Upper Sind, passes north of the 
Bandar or Port of Lakhh Pat to the sea. 
Such is the Mihran of Sind or Great Mihran, Hakra, Wahindah, or 
Bahindah, Wall in d-S agar, Sind-Sagar, or Sank rah, from its sonrce to 
the sea, and which as late as Nadir Shah’s time was considered the 
boundary between Sind and Hind. &3& 
It is necessary to mention, that there area number of old channels — 
indeed traces of them are every where met with—between the chan¬ 
nel of the Sindliu, Ab-i-Sind, or Indus as it runs at present, and the 
channels of the Mihran of Sind or Hakra, one of which passes close to 
Shadad-pur on the west, and runs towards Bahman-abad and Mansuriyah. 
It may be said, in fact, that, at different times, the Mihran of Sind or 
Hakra has flowed over a great part of Sind, as far west as Shadad-pur, 
and this is fully indicated from the many vestiges of ancient towns 
635 Bah man evidently thought the same when he founded Bahman-rtih or 
Bahman-abad. 
The substance of the treaty between Nadir Shah and Muhammad Shah. 
BadsMh of Dihli, mentioning the Sankrah, Sind-Sagar, or Hakr&, as referred to at 
page 461, I am able here to give. It is to this effect in the Tarfkh of Ni’mat Kh an, 
* AIi: “The Government of Hindustan agrees to cede to the Shah of Tran of the 
Turk-maniyah dynasty, the whole territory of the west, from, and including 
Pes’hawar, the Banga&’hat, the Dar-nl-Mulk of Kabul, Gliaxnih, and the Kohistan , 
the dwelling-place of the Afghan tribes [ here it will be noticed that “ the Afghan¬ 
istan,” as described in my “ Notes,” page 453, which see, is clearly meant ], the 
Hazarah-jat, the fortress of Bakhar, and Sakhar, Hamid-abad, and the whole of the 
district of the Derah-jat, and the place styled Ohaulri-i-Sokhtah, and other places 
belonging to the subah of Thathah, the kasbali of Bndhan [ Badin ? J, the parganah of 
Haran, the parganah of Biah-Wali Kandah, and the other remaining parganahs be¬ 
longing to Pes’hawar, together with the adjoining parganahs of Kabul, from the 
boundary of Atak, and the Nalah of Sankuah, the extremity of the river Shnto- 
Sagar, which unites with the great ocean ; and that the officials of Hindustan from 
henceforth shall not exercise any authority therein. And the Badshah of Hindu¬ 
stan, on his part, agrees to cede those territories, and from that date considers, that 
those territories here named are out of his charge and jurisdiction, and that they 
shall not, after that before-mentioned date, be accounted as comprised within or 
belonging to the empire of Hindustan ; ” and further, “ that documents to this 
effect had been given to be a proof of the same.” This was dated the 29th of 
Safar, 1152 H. (26th May, 1739 A.D.). Multan was not included as Tod asserts. 
By this treaty the whole territory comprised within the stlbah of Thathah, as 
constituted in Akbar Badshah’s reign, and the southern part of the Bakhar sarlcdr 
of the Multan sixbah east of the Indus, and the whole of the territory on the west 
side of the Indus, were lost to the Dillri empire ; and only what constitutes the 
Bahawal-pur state now, and the territory of the l J anj Ab or Five Rivers, were left 
to it. 
Writers of “ Reports to Government ” on “ Perom, Panjnud ,” etc., and compilers 
of Gazetteers, would do well to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest these facts. 
