Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c16.s2.38

v1.c16.s2.38

The Luni River. — Let the reader again take post on Abu, by which he may be saved a painful journey over the Thal.⁵ The most interesting object in this arid ‘ region of death ’ is the ‘ salt river,’ the Luni, with its many arms falling from the Aravalli to enrich the best portion of the principality of Jodhpur, and distinctly marking the line of that extensive plain of ever-shifting sand, termed in Hindu geography Marusthali, corrupted to Marwar.