ROHR!, written also Rori and Lohri, a town on tho left bank of tho Indus, in lat. 27° 42' N., and long. se 56' E. It its built on an anciently occupied position, a rocky emi nence of limestone, terminating abruptly on the western side by a precipice 40 feet high, rising from the bank of the river. It gives its name to a sub-district forming part of Shikarpur collec torate, lying between lat. 27° 7' and 28° 32' N., and between long. 68° 52' and 70° 15' E. Area, 4258 square miles ; pop. (1872), 217,515 souls. Bounded on the north-east and east by the states of Bahawulpur and Jaisalmir (Jeysulmir), and on the south by Khairpur. The Muhammadans are chiefly of the Kazi, Sayyid, Bhuta, Kori, Patoli, Muhana, Khati, Memon, Shaikh, and Shikari tribes. The Sayyids of Bukkur and Rori have held lands in gift from about 1290 A.D. Grants of land were also made to them in 1712 by Jahandar Shah, on condition to pray for their imperial masters, and to guard the country from marauders.
The War-Mubarak, a building about 25 feet square, situated to the north of the town, was erected about 1545 by Mir Muhammad, the reign ing Kalhora ptinee, for the reception of a hair from the beard of Mahomed. This hair is set in amber which again is enclosed in a gold case studded with rubies and emeralds, the gift of Mir Ali Murad of Khairpur. The relic is exposed to view every March, when the hair by some mechan ical process rises and falls, which the devotees are led to believe proceeds from supernatural agency.
Rori is sometimes distinguished as Rori Bukkur. When a locality is designated by two names men tioned together, it is either because there are two places bearing these names respectively close to each other, as Hoti Mardan, Tarn Jabba, or else, where there is a river, because they are on the opposite banks of the river, as Rori-Bukkur, Thut-Naka, Daghi-Banda, etc.
Bukkur, a fortified island in the Indus river, is in the centre of the stream, nearly opposite the town of Rori which is on the eastern bank, and on the western bank is Sukkur. Near these places is the site of Arore or Alore, a capital of Sind in remote antiquity. On its site the shepherds of the desert have established an exten sive hamlet, on a ridge of silicious rock, 7 miles east of the insular Bukkur and free from the inundations of the Indus. 'The Soda, a power ful branch of the Pramara race, ruled in these countries from remote antiquity, and, to a very late period, they were lords of Omra-Soomra, in which division was Arore. Sehl and his capital were known to Abul Fazl, who thus describes it : In ancient times there lived a raja named Sehris (Sehl), whose capital was Alore, and his dominions extended north to Kashmir, and south to the ocean.' Sehl or Sehr became a titular appel lation of the country, its princes and its inhabit ants, the Sehrai. Alore appears 'to have been the capital of the kingdom of Sigertis, conquered by Menander of Bactria. Ibn Haukul, the Arabian geographer, mentions it as Azore. D'Anville, quoting Abulfeda, says, grandeur d'Azour est presque comparable h Multan.' Gaz, • .
Masson's Journeys, i. p. 362.