500 H. G. Raverty —The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. [Ex. No. 
passed more directly westwards towards Shah-pur and Gohchh, in 
tlie part known at present as Kachqhhi, and west and south of Khan 
Garb (now Jacob-abad), and from thence towards Khairo Garhi and 
Shadad-pur, receiving- between these two places the waters of the 
streams from the hills on the north, north-west, and west, which hitherto 
had made their way towards the Manchhar lake, and the Lakhhi range 
of mountains. Then issuing from the lake, and bending more towards 
the south-south-east towards Nasr-pur, and near that place deserting 
its former channel running in the direction of Badin—one of those 
intervening between the Puranah Dhorah or Old Channel and the 
present channel of the Indus — the stream turned to the southwards 
to unite with the sea not far beyond Shakar-piir, where the remains of 
an ancient town still exist. 576 Other, bat minor channels, running 
southwards or branching off from the main channel, there must have 
been then as now, and these I need scarcely refer to here, save to one 
larger than the others which passed east of the town of Jarak, and 
from thence towards Samui-Nagar, before Thathah was founded, about 
740 H. (1339-40 A.D.). 577 
Thus did the river called the Sind Rud or Rud-i-Sind wo Hind, 
which, when the old ’Arab geographers and chroniclers wrote, consisted 
of the Wihat, Chin-ab, Rawi, and Biah, desert the EJakra or Wahindah 
altogether, but the Sutlaj—which then flowed in the Uboh-har channel, 
and has been incorrectly called “ the Western Nyewal”—and the Ghag- 
and that certainly flowed in the Sind Hollow, or some distance west of Bakhar. 
From the latter place he went on to Multan by Lf chch h, which, he says, was on 
the Ab-i-Sind. 
576 The ruins of several ancient towns are said to exist in this neighbourhood. 
There is a mound at a place called “ Kakeyja,” in one map, and “ Kakeja ” in 
another, thirty miles south-east of Jarak. Another ruined site is at “ Katbaman ” 
of the maps, tw6nty-four miles east-south-east of Jarak ; a third at “ Shah Toorail,” 
nine miles north-north-east of Badin, and rather less than two mites from the recent 
west bank of the Guni branch of the Indus ; and a fourth collection of ruins at 
41 Nindimanee,” five miles east of Muhabbat Dero. These I believe to have been 
in the southernmost parts of the Bet or delta mentioned in the operations of the 
Arab leader Muhammad, son of Kasim. See note 187, page 234, and note 538, 
page 468. 
Close to where the Fulaili and Guni branches of the Indus used to unite, the 
ruins of large buildings and fragments of broken bricks and pottery covered the 
ground for miles. 
677 Mir Ma’sum says, in his History, that when Shah Beg Khan attacked Thathah 
the first time on the 11th Muharram, 926 H. (2nd January, 1520 A.D ), he came from 
the northward by the Lakhhi Hills, and took up his position on the banks of the 
Kh an Wa-hah, three Jcuroh (about five miles and a quarter) north of the city; and, 
that in those days, it was the main branch of the river, but there was water to the 
south likewise, in another channel. 
