1892.] H. Gr. Raverty— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries . 475 
several islands, until it readied Mansuriyali; while, lower down, it 
united and formed one great river. One writer states, that at this 
period, Between the country of Mukran, that is from the Kahtar range 
west of Siw-istan (Karachi, it may he noticed, was considered, down 
almost to the present century, to belong to Mukran) and Mansuriyah, 
the waters of the Mihran of Sind formed great lakes, one of which, 
without doubt, is the existing Lake Manehhar. 
At this'period the place of junction of the Wihat, Bihat, or Jihlam 
with the Ohin-ab was about midway between Chandani-ot, now in the 
Rachin-ab Do-abali, and Sa’e-Wal in the Chin-bath Do-abah, in about 
31° 51' IST. Lat., and 72° 28' E. Long. In their downward progress the 
united rivers, under the name of Ohin-ab, passed from some four to 
fourteen miles (according to the shifting of their courses from time to 
time from east to west and back again, from one side to the other of 
the broad tract seamed with its channels), and from four to eight miles 
east of Jhangf-i-Sialan. On the other hand, the Hawaii or Rawi, which 
also flowed, at different periods, from one side to the other of a tract of 
country, in some parts from twenty to twenty-five miles in breadth : 
at times on one side, at times on the other, and taking a more south¬ 
easterly course than at present, about eight miles east of Satli Grarh, 
about the same distance east of Hurappah, and five miles east of Tulan- 
bali, united with the Ohin-ab within a few miles of Multan on the east, 
the district immediately adjoining the city on that side being still known 
as Taraf-i-Ra wi, or the Rawi Side or Quarter, to this day. 
These three united rivers, known as the Trim A'o or Trim Ab, then 
flowing in a direction a little to the west of south, united with the Biali 
about twenty-eight miles lower down than Multan, and formed what the 
Arab writers name the Sind Rud, or Rud-i-Sind wo Hind, -55 ^ which the 
643 Al-Mas’udi, who wrote in 3G0 H. (911-42 A.D.), says, that the river Mihran 
of Sind [See note 543, page 471] flows on towards Multan and beyutid , and receives 
the name of Mihran. * * * Another of the five rivers which go to form the 
Mihran of Sind is called Qatil [See page 207], When, all have passed Multan they 
unite about three days’ journey below the city of Multan, and above Mansuriyah, 
and unite into one stream at Dosh-i-ab [with the Hakra or Wahindah], which flows 
towards Aldor or Alror, which lies on its west bank, and belongs to Mansuriyah, 
where [at Dosh-i-Ab] it receives the name of Mihran. * * '* 1 he Mihran 
goes to Mansuriyah.” See note 124, page 211. 
If the ancient capital of Sind is here referred to under the name of Aldor or 
Alror, as it seems to be, it was within the limits of the tract dependent on Bahmau- 
abad or Bahman-nili, which territory was afterwards known as Mansuriyah. 
Al-Mas’udl, it will be observed, does not notice any third great river. The 
Istakhari also states, that “the Sind Bud, is about three stages from Multan, and 
that its waters are pleasant before it unites with the Mihran,” and does not refer 
