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Punjab District Gazetteers Multan District 1923-24

1926

Against the theory that the reach was artificially made are the width of the bed and the absence of all traces of excavation : on the other hand it is equally difficult to imagine the river cutting for itself a perfectly straight chanel through the highest and hardest land in the neighbouhood. [...] This course of the river lay almost through the centre of the area now irrigated by the Sidhnai canal; and in many of the Sidhnai villages the depressions which it has left are still spoken of as rtivfs '. From the banks of the river as it so ran were taken off a large number of canals and water-courses the remains of which (known as arks) are still prominent in the neighbourhood of Makdam Ra [...] When there is water in the river the whole of this is rendered avaiable for irrigation by the dam at the head of the Sidhnai canal; and the irrigation owing to the rich quality of the silt in suspension is of an excellent character. [...] The river however flowed to the west of the city (as it now does) in the days of Albiruni that is to say in the 11th century and it was also to the west of the city at the time of Tamerlane's invsion and at the time of the writing of the Ain-i-Akbari and it is probable that Mullin has lain east of the Chenab for at least five centuries if not longer. [...] The Chenab water though less fertilizing than that of the Ravi is more so than that of the Sutlej; and the people in the south-west of the district whose lands receive water from both rivers mark the difference by calling the Sutlej nar or male and the Chenab mdda or female.
government politics public policy
Pages
319
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Frontmatter
i-viii Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter I. Descriptive
1-143 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter II. Economic
144-226 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter III. Administrative
227-264 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter IV. Places of Interest
265-293 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Appendix
i-xvi Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view