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mountain-chiefs, promising to keep them in posses- 

 sion, and also to augment their authority and im- 

 portance ; and if any of them 4 * were guilty of a breach 

 of faith, he seized their country as he had done to 

 the kings of Marecajis, although his relations. 



The king of Gore ha having already possessed him- 

 self of all the mountains which surround the plain of 

 Nepal, began to descend into the flat country, ima- 

 gining he should be able to carry on his operations 

 with the same facility and success as had attended him 

 on the hills; and, having drawn up his army before 

 a town, containing about 8000 houses, situate upon 

 a hill called Cirtipu?\ about a league's distance from 

 Caf/wianJu, employed his utmost endeavours to get 

 possession of it. The inhabitans of Cirtipur receiving 

 no support from the king of LeJit Pattan, to whom 

 they were subject, applied for assistance to Gainprejas, 

 who immediatly marched with his whole army to their 

 relief, gave battle to the army of the king of Gorc'ha, 

 and obtained a complete victory. A brother of the 

 king of Gotcha was killed on the field of battle ; and 

 the king himself, by the assistance of good bearers, 

 narrowly escaped with his life, by fleeing into the 

 mountains. After the action, the inhabitants of ClrtU 

 pur demanded Gainprejas for their king, and the 

 nobles of the town went to confer with him on the 

 business, but, being all assembled in the same apart- 

 ment with the king, they were all surprised and seized 

 by his people. After the seizure of those persons, Gain- 

 prejas, perhaps to revenge himself of these nobles for 

 havino- refused their concurrence to his nomination as 

 king, privately caused some of them to be put to 

 death ; another, by name Danuvanta, was led through 

 the city in a woman's dress, along with several others, 

 clothed in a ridiculous and whimsical manner, at the 

 expence of the nobles of Lelit Pattaru They were 



