1919.] The Rajput Kingdoms of Mediaeval Chhattisgarh. 203 
es ae Rajdeo came to the throne. He conquered 18. forts 
ound Dongar and assigned them to his younger brother as 
te appanage.” (Sils’ History of the Central Provinces and 
Berar, page 115). In. this case history repeated itself for in 
Yol. 85 
Bastar Rajah Bhyro Deo invested his younger brother Dalgan- 
jan _— with “ 18 Garhs as an appanage for his livelihood.” 
Lastly, I would note the curious fact that the Feuda- 
tory ane of Ralahandi i is still sub-divided into 18 garhs. My 
attention was first drawn to this Dependency by the remark of 
Sir R. Jenkins, on page 213 of his report on the Nagpur wi 
torries written in 1826, that Kharonde or Kalahan 
« divided into eighteen garhs or petty zamindaries.” I bis 
turned to the report on this state contained in No. XXX of 
(Foreign Department) ” written by Lieut.-Col. Elliott in 1856. 
There I found it stated that Kalahandi “originally consisted 
‘of 14 garhs to which four were subsequently a in the 
‘‘ year 1122 Fasli(or 1712 A.D.) having been ceded by the Raja 
‘‘of Jaipur.” This, at first sight, seemed fatal to any attempt 
to attach significance to the figure eighteen. But a further 
state ie hep k contained 18 Garhs, but that five had been 
compres into one, tat at the time of the cession of 
four additional Garhs from Jeypore, with a view to preventing 
any clout of the warentden Atharah Gar 
e below an abstract of the distribution of Garhs 
in Keichandt ater in the report of 1856 
Kuatsa, 5 anes 
JHooaMoot Estate, 7 GARHS. 
(vi) Jhooamool with 15 sub-divisions and 126 villages. 
(vii) Deypore with 4 sub-divisions and 55 villages. 
held ae a younger branch of the pr eagetd pe gk and according to 
Hewitt (Report of 1869, para 54) ‘‘ the rulers of Raipore were entirely 
‘** subordinate to the Head of the fianity ee aoe anpur.” An ew 
(Report of 1820, p. 2) writes: ‘*‘ Members e Ratanpur family seem 
“es jonall uted to nth * and in 
‘other parts of the province; but, as far as ic they were 
** neve o. ependent of the Ruttunpore Government 
‘* Jagannath Sai _ s accession to the gaddi of Ratanpur was 
** Governor of Lawan his grandson Bariar Singh subsequently became 
*s Raja of Rai 
