Gazetteer of the Dera Ghazi Khan District. 1893-97

The breadth from the river to the base of the mountains varies from 40 miles/ at the centre of the district to 20 miles at the northern and southern extremities and the breadth of the bill tract is about 40 miles. [...] district down the Indus Valley as well as from the mountains to the river and the elevation of the Pachtid in the north of the district near the hills is 700 feet above sea-level and of the Indus bed 480 feet while the corresponding levels in the extreme south of the district are 480 and 260 feet respectively. [...].General Cunningham has fixed the probable capital of this Raja Sirkap at Amba Kapi in the district of Lahore.t The same authority traces the connection of the Sirkap legend with the ruins of 'I'axila and Manikiala both in the modern district of Rawalpindil By the people of this district the same legend is circumstantially connected with the towns of Asni and Mari. [...] With respect to the plain if we may judge from the present state of the population those between the Suleman and Mekran mountains and the Indus were occupied by Jats or Indians." The first appearance of the Muhatn►nadans in India was in the year 44 of the Hijri (A. [...] The change in the course of the Indus by which its junction with the Chenab was shifted from Uch to Mithankot threw the greater part of the territory held by the Makhdums open to the attacks of the Nawabs who gradually annexed the whole up to the present left bank of the Indus.