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mediate orders to all his troops to storm the town on 

 every side : but the inhabitants bravely defended it, so 

 that all the efforts of his men availed him nothing ; 

 and, when he saw that his army had failed of gaining 

 the precipice, and that his brother, named Suruparatna, 

 had f lien wounded by an arrow, he was obliged to 

 raise the siege a second time, and to retreat with his army 

 from Cirtipur. The brother of the king was atter- 

 wards cured of his wound by our father Michael An- 

 gelo, who is at present in Bettia. 



After the action, the king of Gore ha sent his army 

 against the king of Lamji (one of the twenty-four 

 kings who reign to the westward of Nepal) bordering 

 upon his own kingdom of Gorc'ha. After many des- 

 perate engagements, an accommodation took place with 

 the king of Lamji : and the king of Gorc'ha collect- 

 ing all his forces, sent them for the third time to be- 

 siege Cirtipur ; and the army on this expedition was 

 commanded by his brother Suruparatna. The inha- 

 bitants of Cirtipur defended themselves with their 

 usual bravery, and, after a siege of several months, the 

 three kings of Nepal assembled at Cafhmandu to march 

 a body of troops to the relief of Cirtipur. One day in 

 the afternoon they attacked some of the Tanas of the 

 Gcrc'hians, but did not succeed on forcing them, be- 

 cause the king of Gorc'has party had been reinforced 

 by many of the nobility, who, to ruin Cainprejas, were 

 willing to sacrifice their own lives. The inhabitants 

 of Cirtipur having already sustained six or seven 

 months siege, a noble of Lelit Pattim, called Dauu- 

 vanta, fled to the Gorc'ha party, and treacherously in- 

 troduced their army into the town. The inhabitants 

 might still have defended themselves, having many 

 other fortresses in the upper parts of the town to 

 retreat to ; but the people at Gore ha having pub- 

 lished a general amnesty, the inhabitants, greatly 

 exhausted by the fatigues of a long siege, surrendered 



