1892.] H. G-. Raverty —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 499 
fying ‘disturbance,’ ‘tumult,’ ‘uproar,’ and the like, was probably the 
origin of the subsequently named, Shor or Shor Kot. 
By this change in their courses, the two united rivers above-named 
moved some fourteen or fifteen miles farther westwards than before, 
and abandoned the Rawi altogether ; and instead of passing Multan 
on the east side, and which had been previously in the Sind-Sagar Do- 
abah, they passed it on the west side, and thus placed it in the Raohin-ab 
Do-abah, but Uchchh was thereby placed in the Bist Jalhandar Do- 
abah. 573 The united Bihat and Chin-ab now united with the Biah— 
with which the Rawi still united 574 on the east side of Multan, but 
much lower down than before — a little to the north of Jalal-pur in the 
south-west corner of the Multan district as now constituted, about forty 
miles below that city, and some thirty miles above Uchchh. The united 
Rawi and Biah had consequently to run between twenty-five and thirty 
miles to the south-westwards to unite with the Chin-ab and Wihat; 
and, soon after, a little lower down, these four united with the A'b-i- 
Sind or Indus thus forming a new Panch Nad or Panj Ab near Uchchh 
on the west, and deserting the Hakra for good. 
It was at this period, I believe, if it had not previously done so, 
that the Sindhu or Ab-i-Sind threw oft a branch farther westwards, 
between Rujan and Kashmur, 575 which flowed in the channel which 
673 When Abu-1-Fazl wrote the A’in-i-Akbari, Uchchh, through other changes, 
had been thrust out of the Do-abahs entirely, and became Beruti-i-Panch Nad, or 
Extra Panj Ab, or outside the clo-abahs embraced between these rivers; and Uchchh 
was still thus situated when the A’in-i-Akbari was completed; while Multan, 
through a change in the Rawi, was then in the Bari Do-abah as at present. 
Before this, the Rawi had united with the Chin-ab before the junction 
with the Biah, and nearer to Multan on the east, which part is still known as 
taraf- i-Rawi. 
575 Ibn Batutah makes some remarkable observations in confirmation of this. 
Respecting the Ab-i-Sind, he says, that he came down the river, and on the 1st of 
Muharram, 734 H. (11th September, 1333 A.D.), reached the junction forming 
the Panj Ab. Then he says, that “ here commences the territory of the Sultan of 
Hind and Sind; and from thence it is necessary, that a description in writing 
should be sent of persons arriving on the frontier, to the Amir of the province of 
Sind stationed at Multan.” From the junction he proceeded to Jatu-i [in the 
original Mss. consulted written or for in which are located a 
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people called al-Samirah [Sumrah ?] who have been dwelling in that part from the 
period of the conquest of Sind in the time of Amir Hajjaj. From thence he went 
to Siw-istan, and makes no mention of Bakhar in going thither, but, coming from 
Sind on his way to Multan, he came to Bakhar, which he says is “ a handsome city 
(or town) divided by an arm of the Ab-i-Sind. Where was the other arm or arms, 
or main channel ? arid how did he reach Siw-istan without passing Bakhar, as he 
appears to have done ? I conceive that he went down by the channel flowing farther 
west; but, if not, he certainly refers to another arm or channel of the Ab-i-Sind, 
