SEHWAN, the ancient Sindomana, is built on the extremity of a spur from the Baluchi range. The pass of Sehwan has a picturesque appearance from the river, with its rocky mountains rising in terraces along the bank, and its old ruined castle, supposed to have belonged to the Alexandrian age. Sehwan town is in lat. 26° 26' N., and long. 67° 54' E., and gives its name to a sub-district of ICurachee in Sind ; of area 3646 square nines ; pop. (1872), 162,836 souls. It contains the Manchhar or Manchur Lake ; the Laki Range, an offshoot from the Khirthar mountains, and the Jatil Hills ; the principal canals being the Western Nara, the Aral, the Phito, and the Karo. There are several hot springs. The people are largely supported by the offerings of pilgrims at the shrine of Lal Shabbaz, whose tomb is enclosed in a quad rangular edifice, said to have been .built in A.D. 1356. It is covered with a dome and lantern, and has beautiful encaustic tiles with Arabic inscriptions. Mirz.a Jani of the Tarkhan dynasty
completed a still larger tomb to this saint in A.D. 1639. The gate and balustrade are said to have been of beaten silver, the gift of Mir Karm Ali Khan Talpur, who also crowned the. domes with silver spires. Sehwan fort, ascribed to-41exander the Great, is an artificial mound 240 ot,270 feet Bellew.
high, measuring round the summit 1500 by 800 feet, and surrounded by a broken wall. The reuaains of several towers are visible. Tradition asserts that the town was in existence at the time of the first Muhammadan invasion of Sind by Muhammad Kasim, Safiki, about A.D. 713 ; and it is believed to be the same place which submitted to his arms after the conquest of Nerankot, the modern Hyderabad.— Lill Gaz. ; Postan.