The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c16.64

c16.64

¹ Curtius (ix, 9) gives a spirited and detailed account of the voyage from Patala to the sea. Thathah (Tatta) is in N. lat. 24° 45′, E. long. 67° 58′. In the seventeenth century (Sir Thomas Herbert, Thevenot, &c.) Dēbal or Dēwal was the southernmost town in Sind, and a much frequented seaport, distant about 15 miles from Thathah. The town has now utterly disappeared; but it must have stood near to the shrine of Pīr Patho, or a little farther to the south-west, at the foot of the Makkahlī hills, and near the Bhāgar branch of the Indus, which was in those days a very great stream (Raverty, 'The Mihrān of Sind', pp. 317–31, note 315). Haig puts it at a ruin-covered site 20 miles SW. of Thathah (Holdich, *The Gates of India*, p. 310). That identification seems to be correct. But Raverty (p. 321) makes a slip in saying that Herbert landed at ‘Diul’. He landed at ‘Swalley Road’, off Sūrat (*Travels*, ed. 1677, p. 42). Diul is mentioned by him on p. 80 as a port.