○dru f. 'flowing in a hundred (or numerous) branches', N. of a river now called the Sutlej (it is the most easterly of the five rivers of the Pañjāb, and rises in a lake prob. ṃānasa ṣarovar on the Himâlaya mountains

• flowing in a southwesterly direction for 550 miles, it unites with the Vipāśā or Beas south-east of Amritsar [see vipāś], afterwards joining the Chenāb and filling into the Indus below Multan

• it is also called śutu-dri, śutu-dru, śita-dru &c.) MBh. Hariv. R. &c

• N. of the Ganges MW.

• -ja m. pl. people that dwell near the Sutlej MārkP.