1 E.1.C. Ms. Doc.;
2 Outram, Rough
3 Notes, 149.
4 E.I.C. Ms. Doc.
5 E.LC, Ms. Doc.
6 Bokh. i. 58.
7 Elph. Ace. of
8 Caubul, 26,
9 86 OOC—OOD. —
10 rounded by a ruinous brick wall. The streets are narrow and
11 meanly built, but the bazaars are large, and well supplied with
12 wares, and there is considerable general traffic. These towns
13 are built on mounds, formed by the materials of great cities for-
14 merly existing here. In the immediate vicinity are prodigious
15 quantities of ruins, still in such preservation that they could be
16 easily rendered habitable. Ooch is regarded with veneration by
17 Mahometans, in consequence of containing five shrines of de-
18 ceased pirs or saints, saiyids, reputed descendants from Mahomet.
19 Population, 20,000. Lat. 29° 13’, long. 71° 6’.
20 OOCHLAN, in Afghanistan, a village on the route from
21 Ghuznee to Shawl, and fifty miles south of the former town.
22 Lat. 32° 53’, long. 68° 10’,
23 OODANA, in Beloochistan, a large village of Cutch Gundava,
24 on the route from the town of Gundava to Shikarpoor, and
25 twenty miles east of the former town. It is surrounded by a
26 mud wall, outside of which are several wells, yielding a scanty
27 supply of water. The road in this part of the route is good,
28 lying over a level plain; but at fourteen miles west of the vil-
29 lage it is crossed by a canal twenty yards broad and fifteen feet
30 deep, with steep banks. There is some cultivation in the imme-
31 diate neighbourhood of Oodana. Forage is abundant, but other
32 supplies scarce. Seven miles to the east of the town are the
33 ruins of old Ocdana. The present town is in lat. 28° 30’, long.
34 67° 49’.
35 OODAR, in Sinde, a halting-place on the route from Roree
36 to Jessulmair, and fifty miles south-east of the former town.
37 Here are two wells yielding good water, but no habitations nor
38 supplies, except a little coarse grass as forage for camels. The
39 fort which formerly stood here was, some years ago, swept away
40 by a flood, and this event seems to indicate that the waters of the
41 Indus sometimes find their way over this waste, though nearly
42 fifty miles distant from the main channel. A mound with a few
43 trees now marks this former site of the fort. Oodar is in lat. 27°
44 25’, long. 69° 30’.
45 OODEENUGGUR, in the Punjab, aruined city on the left or
46 east bank of the Jailum, supposed by Burnes to be the remains
47 of Niccea, built by Alexander on the field of his victory over Porus.
48 Lat. 32° 49’, long. 73° 26’.
49 OODOO-DA-KOTE, in the Punjab, a village on the route