Punjab.

Date:: 1908

Credit: Punjab. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$extent. It is possible that the ruins mark the site of the capital of Mousicanus, who, after a brief submission to Alexander, revolted and was crucified in 325 b.c. The name Mousicanus probably conceals the name of the tribe or territory ruled by the chieftain, and it has been suggested that it survives either in the tribal name of the Magsi or Magassi Balochs or in that of the Machkas. Another theory identifies the capital with Aror in Sind. A Sanskrit inscription, now lost, is said to have recorded the existence of an ancient monastery. The town was refounded by the Sumras in the tenth century, but it is now a desolate ruin. Sarwahi (Seorai, Skvrae).—Ancient site in the Ahmadpur Lamma tahsil of Bahawalpur State, Punjab, situated in 28° lo'N. and 70° 2' E., 8 miles north-east of Kot Sabzal. It was identified by Sir A. Cunningham with the Sodrai or Sogdoi of the Greek historians. It was one of the six forts repaired by Rai Sahasi of Sind in the sixth century, and was destroyed by Shah Husain Arghun in 1525. It is still a place of consider- able sanctity to Muhammadans. Sui Vehar.—Site of a ruined Buddhist tower, in the Bahawalpur State, Punjab, situated in 29° i8'N. and 71° 34' E., 6 miles from Samasata station on the North-Western Railway. An inscription found here is dated in the eleventh year of Kanishka’s reign. \Journal^ Asiatic Society^ Bengal^ vol. xxxix, pp. 65-70; Indian Antiquary^ vol. x, pp. 324-31]. Uch (Uchh — ‘ high place ’).—Town in the Ahmadpur tahsil of the Bahawalpur State, Punjab, situated in 29° 14° N. and 71° 4' E., 38 miles south-east of Bahawalpur town, on the south bank of the Sutlej opposite its confluence with the Chenab. Population (1901), 7,583. The municipality had an income in 1903-4 of Rs. 2,000, chiefly from octroi. Archaeologically and historically Uch is a place of great interest. Sir Alexander Cunningham identified it with the city which Alexander the Great built near the meeting of the Punjab rivers. He believed that it is also the town mentioned by Rashid-ud-dln as the capital of one of the four principalities of Sind under Ayand, the son of Kafand. This identification is, however, far from certain. Uch was in the twelfth century known as Deogarh, ‘ the gods’ stronghold ’; and its ruler Deo Singh fled to Marwar, when the great Muhammadan mis- sionary and saint Saiyid Jalal-ud-dm Bukhari came to the place, converted Sundarpuri, Deo Singh’s daughter, to Islam, and bade her build a fort called uchha or uchh (‘ high ’). Since$

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