Archaeological Survey of India Volume XLVI Imperial Series. The Antiquities of Sind with Historical Outline

SIND ITS RIVERS AND ANTIQUITIES 1 Sind a land of sepulchres 1 ; Its rivers 1 ; The Indus 1 ; Southern limits of the delta 3 ; The Hakrah 3 ; The Mihran 4 ; The Kumbh 4 ; Raverty’s identification of Nirfin wrong 4 ; The Sehun 5 ; Changes in the Indus in recent times 6 ; General aspect and character of Sind 6 ; Its antiquarian remains 7 ; The dawn of its history 7 ; Its ancient sites [...] BUDDHIST STCPA AT MTRPUR-KIIIS. 82 Examination of the mound 82 ; Previous excavations 82 ; Excavation of the mound by the writer 83 ; Clearing of the walls 84 ; Original subsidence of the building 84 ; Destructive effect of kalar in the soil 85 ; Cell shrines 85 ; Niches and images on the west side 85 ; Votive tablets and coins 87 ; Well sunk in centre of ahlpa 87 ; Reli [...] ▪ Captain Wood who travelled through Sind in 1837.8 and entered the delta by the Hajamarl mouth found the hull of a Dutch brig-of-war embedded in the neighbourhood of Viklcar " affording proof if any were wanting of the over-changing course of the Indus " (A Journey to the Source of the 02148 p. 2). [...] With the gieat change in the course of the river at Alor the main channel of the Hakrah which flowed past Wanjriit ceased to flow owing to the loss of most of its tributaries and failure of others while the new stream the Indus increased in volume and became a great river by the accession of five of those tributaries. [...] But Sind had to bear the brunt of the iconoclastic attacks of the Arabs fresh from the cradle of Islam and suffered accordingly ; and since that time the province had been under the intolerant rule of the Muhammadans when the Hindu so far as his idolatrous practices went had to lie low.