1892.] H. G. Baverty— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. 477 
as it was called below Aror, 551 was much as before described. It again 
separated into two main branches between thirty-nine and forty miles 
above JBaliman-abad and Mansuriyali, encircling a large portion of its 
territory, and again united below those places, flowed towards Wangah, 
and discharged its waters into the sea by the Shakara channel and the 
Kohra’i inlet or estuary, 562 then, not far from the town of Badin, of the 
present day. When in flood, such redundant water as could not pass 
readily into the sea by the ordinary channel, spread out, and along 
with the overflow from other rivers farther east, including the Lorn, 
from Sanskrit Ion —salt — the “ Loonee ” and “ Loony ” of the maps, 553 
5 &1 According to the Tarikh-i-Tahirh but see preceding note 548, page 475, and 
note 304, page 305. 
55 2 See note 168, page 223. 
55 3 Tod, in the map to his “ Rajast’han,” actually makes the lower part of the 
Hakra close to its junction with the sea, to be the Loony R., and places it a long way 
west of Lakhh-Pat and west of the Ban; whereas the Loni flowed into the Ban, 
or was lost in it at its eastern extremity. Here, doubtless, was the “ Loni Bari ost ” 
of Ptolemy. 
The writer on the “Lost River,” in the “Calcutta Review” (p. 18.), makes “the 
embouchure of the Indus, Sutlej, and the Luni form the rann of Kach ” ; and adds, 
that, “ all traditions of tribes bordering thereon, say that it was anciently an 
estuary.” In another place he makes it, the “ estuary of the Sutlej ” only. 
It certainly was an estuary, but of the Hakra, Sind-Sagar, or Great Mihran of 
Sind, of which the Sutlaj, four degrees farther north, as well as the Ab-i-Sind or 
Indus, which thereabouts united with the Hakra, were tributaries. 
The same writer recognizes this estuary at the mouth of the Hakra as “ Arrian’s 
great lalce, at the mouth of the eastern arm of the Indus ” ; also that it is “ the 
lake of Sagara in which according to the Chuch Nama the fleet of Muhammad Kasim 
lay ” ; also “the lake Ash Sharki upon which Al-Biladuri says the fleet of Jaishya son 
of Dahir, king of Sind, was destroyed by the Arab army under Jnnaid.” This is 
from Elliot. 
The Samarali lake west of Amar Kot is more probably the remains of that lake 
or very near it, since changed, and the “ estuary ” led to it. 
See page 67, where the naval battle is mentioned by the Balazari, and note 530, 
page 461, also note 534, page 465. 
Wilford, who possessed a vast deal of information respecting these parts, 
though some of it is speculative and the names generally written from ear only, 
says: (As. Res. 6—225) The Sigertis of the Greeks is from Hindee Seller Des, 
the country of Seher or Sehr. * * * Lehri or Lehralii bunder so called because it is in 
the country of Lehreli [Lar], while another part, on the eastern branch is called 
Sehri or Sehrdhi-bunder, from the same cause [that is in the country of Sehr~\, but 
now is always called Bustali-bunder. Its entrance is broad. * * * A salt water 
lake or bay was called Saronis by the Greelcs, aud Eirinos by Arrian in the Periplus. 
# # # This lake communicates with the sea through two mouths, the largest of 
which is close to Bustah-bunder. The other to the east is small. East of it is Lac - 
put Bundur in Cach’ha [Saurashtra or Sorath commences at Lakhh-pat]. It owes 
its origin to king Lac-pati, the grandfather of the present Baja of Cach’ha 
