1892.] H. G. Raverty —The Mihran of Sind audits Tributaries. 497 
Bat I am anticipating, and must return to the discussion of the 
state of the rivers at other epochs. 
The western branch of the Hakra was thus diverted from the 
vicinity of Aror more to the westward, and that branch only; for we 
know from the personal knowledge of a contemporary historian, the 
author of the Tabakat-i-Kasiri, that in 624 H. (1227 A.D.), Wanjh-rut 
on the Hakra was a flourishing place, and the chief town of a district, 
extending eastwards to the Bikanfr border. When the author reached 
I/chchh from Khurasan in the above year, having come down to that 
place from Ghaznih by way of Banian in the Koh-i-Jud or Salt Range, 
by boat on the Bihat, he was made Kazi of the forces under Sultan 
Nasir-ud-Din, Kaba-jah’s son, ’Ala-ud-Din, Muhammad-i-Bahram Shah, 
and Principal of the Firuzi College at l/chqhh. At this period the 
camp was pitched before the gate of the knsbah of Ahrawat ( cirjtyM- 
Uhar-ot, possibly) ; and the whole of Kaba-jah’s fleet, and boats, on 
which the baggage and followers of his army were embarked, were 
moored in front. Soon after, the author went over to the winning 
side — to the enemy’s camp —as soon as the Dilhi forces appeared ; and 
the first of the great feudatories to whom he presented himself was Malik 
Taj-ud-Din, Sanjar-i-Gajzlak Khan, a personage, he says, “ of sufficiently 
formidable aspect, and his form of magnitude,” who then held the 
district of Wanjh-rut of Multan ; and after U'chchh and Bakhar fell, he 
was placed in charge of the territories dependent on them, which in¬ 
cluded the greater part of upper Sind. The district of Wanjh-rut de¬ 
pended on the Hakra ; and that river continued to flow past the town, 
and through the district dependent on it, after the western branch was 
diverted from Aror, and to flow much as it had previously done towards 
Mansuriyah. This state of things continued up to, and for some seventy 
or eighty years after the investment of U'chchh by the Mughals in 643 
H. (1245 A.D.). 
Wanjh-rut, improperly called “ Bijnoot ” and “ Tijnot ” by those 
who did not know the correct name of this place, was still in existence 
a few years since. It stood, in ancient times, before the Hakra or 
Wahindah ceased to flow, on the east side of that branch of the great 
river which passed Aror on the east, and was afterwards diverted, as 
already related, about twenty miles lower down. Its situation was in 
the do-abah or delta between that branch and the main channel, about 
forty miles below the junction of the rivers, forming the Mihran of 
Sind, at Dosh-i-Ab, on the south-west, and is now rather less than eight 
miles east, inclining slightly south-east, from the present Khair-pur 
Dehr ke. The changes in the river caused it to go to decay centuries 
since, although Siw-rahi or Siw-ra’i, which was, probably, a more 
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