The Nāṣirī Generations 45.2

45.2

and the same predominant star was in the as- Cendant at his birth as appeared at the dawn of Islam correctly copied, the situation of the rivers, and the number mentioned, will not agree with actual facts. The Muhammadan traveller I refer to, states, from actual observation: “The Kabul river, after flowing through the darah of Mandror — called by the same name as the chief town of Lamghan is joined, to the north of that place, by the Tahkri generally known as the river of Lamghan ; and near the or mountain of Duiuntha those streams are joined by the Surkh-rud [Red-River], which then flow past Jalalabad on the east, and near the town of Kamah are joined by the Qitrar or Chitral [also called the Kamah], and thus united flow on towards Peshawar. On issuing from the Khaibar mountains at Michani [not Michni], the united streams again separate into three branches, and thus [not united] pass by Peshawar — which is some distance from the nearest branch— for some miles, and do not unite again until just after receiving the Landaey Sind and its tributaries at Nisatah, after which the united waters fall into the Indus a little above, and opposite Attak.” The courses of rivers may alter in the lapse of centuries, in a flat country, as they have in the Punjab, in some instances, but not in such a mountainous tract as the Kabul and its tributaries flow through, on their way to the Indus.