The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c30.92

c30.92

From other sources of information we learn that the kingdom of Sind, of which Balūchistan was a dependency, in those days was rich and powerful, far more populous and fertile than it is now. It occupied the whole valley of the Indus from the neighbourhood of the Salt Range to the sea, and was separated from India proper by the ‘lost river’, the Hakrā or Wahindah, the Sin-tu of Hiuen Tsang. The capital, to which the pilgrim gives the name of P’i-shan-p’opu-lo, was Arōr or Alōr, on the west bank of the Hakrā, a large fortified city, the ruins of which are still traceable 5 miles to the south-east of Rohri (Rūrhī) in the Sukkur (Sakhar) District, N. lat. 27° 39′, E. long. 68° 59′. According to a romantic legend, the ruin of the city was effected, about A. D. 800, by a merchant named Saif-ul-Mulūk, who diverted the waters of the river in order to save a beautiful girl from the clutches of a licentious rāja.