498 H. G. Raverty— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. [Ex. No. 
ancient place, was still the chief place of a mahall of the Berun-i- 
Panch Nad division of the sarkdr of Multan in the time of Akbar 
Badshah. 
At the period I refer to, a few years since, the site of Wanjh-rut 
comprehended a collection of mounds of a blackish colour, ranging 
from twelve to twenty feet in height, consisting of the remains of 
pottery, fragments of charcoal, and great bricks, such as have been 
found at Bahman-abad and in ruined sites higher up, along the banks 
of the rivers, and at Bahram ke on the Gharah, and in the ancient 
towns of Hindustan. These bricks range in size from fifteen to eighteen 
inches long, from nine to twelve broad, and from five to six thick. The 
site extends for about half a mile in length and half that in breadth, 
and is about a mile and a half in circumference. The base thereof has 
been silted up to some four or five feet in height by alluvial deposits, 
caused by the changes in the old channel of the river, and the action of 
water during the lapse of centuries. There are also a number of mounds 
beyond the site, marking where suburbs probably stood. In the centre 
of the place there are the remains of a Hindu temple of some kind, built 
chiefly of sand-stone, the nearest point from which such is now obtain¬ 
able is Jasal-mir. Only a few fragments of stone carvings remain 
which can tend to the identification of the style and date of the build¬ 
ing. Some very small silver and copper coins have also been found, 
but the figures thereon were too defaced to make anything of them, 
and also beads, and fragments of other ornaments. The natives for 
years have been carrying away the stones and bricks for building pur¬ 
poses ; but now, I am told, the Railway Vandals have appeared, and 
have been demolishing the site as fast as possible, and other ancient 
remains, for “ ballast ” for a Railway ! See note 41, page 169, note 464, 
page 429, and “ Notes on Afghanistan,” etc., page 669. 
The next or third transition was caused by the great flood, which 
overwhelmed the whole of the northern parts of the territory of the 
Panj A'b or Five Rivers, as already described at page 392, which occurred 
between the time of the investment of U'chohli by the Mughals, and the 
invasion of Hind by Amir Timur, that is, between 643 H. and 801 H., 
about the years 720 to 725 H. (1320 to 1324 A.D.). It was at this period 
that the Bihat or Jihlam and Ohin-ab, having altered their courses con¬ 
siderably, united a short distance — a few miles— below Shor or Shor Kot, 
whereby that place became placed in the fork between the two rivers, 
and in the Ohin-hatli Do-abah. That fort is, doubtless, that which 
Amir Timur refers to in his account of the passage of the united 
rivers below the junction, and the surging and uproar caused by the 
meeting of the waters, (see page 279) ; for the Tajzik word shor , signi- 
