476 H. G. Raverty— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. [Ex. No. 
Istakhari says is three stages from Multan, and that its waters are 
sweet before it unites with the Mihran, here referring to the Ab-i-Sind, 
by some also called the Nahr-i-Mihran. This Sind Rud then taking a 
course a little more to the south-south-west than before, flowed near by 
Uchchli on the east side, Multan and that place being then in the Sind- 
Sagar Do-abah, and united with the Sindhu, Ab-i-Sind, Nil Ab, or 
Indus, which, up to this period, kept a more direct southerly course 5419 
after issuing from the hilly tracts near Kala or Kara Bagh, down to the 
vicinity of Multan and U'chchli; and the united five rivers then con¬ 
stituted the Panch Nad or Pan] Ab. Continuing to flow much in the 
same direction as before, and passing close to, and between Ghaus-pur, 
Jachoh-Wa-lian, and Ma’u, and east of Bhati Wa-han, Siw-ra’i, and 
Mir-pur 550 —by the old channel, now the great depression, by which, at 
the present time, the Narah, so called, receives part of its waters—this 
Panch Nad or Panj Ab united with the Hakra or Wahindah at Dosh-i- 
Ab, much as it had hitherto done. By degrees, however, through 
the erratic changes in the course of the Sutlaj, 'which had hitherto 
flowed in the easternmost channel that we know of, west of Chamkaur 
and Bliatindah, and whose previous junction with the Hakra or 
Wahindah, consisting of the Ghag-ghar and its tributaries, inclu¬ 
ding the Sursuti and the Chi tang, took place near Walh-har, but which 
now began to incline towards the west and form a new channel for 
itself, the junction of the Sindhu, Ab-i-Sind, or Indus with the Hakra 
began to take place a little lower down, between Sahib Garh and Kand- 
harali or Kandharo, but nearer to the former. 
This junction, as previously noticed in the account of the state of 
the rivers about the time of the ’Arab conquest, of the Sindhu, A'b-i- 
Sind, or Indus, the Jand Rud, and the Hakra (the three great rivers 
mentioned in the Masalik wa Mamalik, and by Ibn Haukal) did not 
long continue, but, as before, again separated into two streams or 
branches, but to flow much in the same directions as before, the western¬ 
most one, the Ra’in or Ra’ini, towards Aror, and the main one towards 
the place of junction farther south near where Sayyidah now stands. 
At this period these brandies of the great river were navigable for 
vessels, or rather large boats, from the ocean upwards beyond Aror, 
U'chchli, and Multan, and the tradition of the Musalman merchant, Saif- 
ul-Muluk tends to confirm it. 
Below Sayyidah the course of the great river, the Mihran of Sind, 
to a third great river, but this fact does not show that it did not exist. It is, 
however, distinctly mentioned soon after, as will presently be shown. 
t 4 * 9 See page 301. 
650 See page 488. J 
