or SUTLUG, the most easterly of the five rivers of the Punjab, in India, rises in the lakes of Manasarovara and Rawan Hrad, among the Himalayas, about N. Lat. 30° 8', E. Long. 81° 53'. It flows north-west for 188 miles, through a country wild and sublime in the highest degree, as far as Khab, where it receives from the north-west the river of Spiti. The confluence of these rivers is one of the most grand and awful scenes in the world; the muddy stream of the Sutlej dashing tumultuously over its rocky bed, and mingling in a deep gulf with the deep, calm, and blue stream of the other. The rivers are, at the confluence, 8600 feet above the sea; and from this point the united stream flows south-west with a very rapid current and steep declivity. At Rampoor, which is a comparatively short distance off, the bed is only 3360 feet high, and the breadth of the stream is 211 feet. Near Bilaspoor it takes a sweep to the north-west, but soon returns to its former course. It joins the Beas a little above Hurekee; and the united river bears the name of Ghara until its junction with the Chenaub, when it takes that of Punjnad, which it bears till it joins the Indus. The Sutlej is believed to be the Zaradrus or Hesudrus of the ancients, and the Hypanis of Strabo.