The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c15.138

v1.c15.138

At Multān, a considerable mercantile city near the Chenāb, the railway forks to Lahore and Peshāwar. From Lahore the triangle is completed by a line to Peshāwar along the foot of the mountains, past the great military station of Rāwalpindi. The lines from Lahore and Multān unite on the east bank of the Indus, fifty miles east of Peshāwar, just below the point where the Kābul tributary enters. They cross the Indus by the bridge of Attock. Above Rāwalpindi is the hill station of Murree. The long tongues of land between the five rivers of the Punjab are known as Doābs, a word which in Persian has the significance of Mesopotamia in Greek. Punjab signifies the land of five rivers.