222 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
‘‘ forts, for Sattarah is not a starin any of the Hindu languages. 
“There are two Rajahs of 36 forts—one in the Allahabad 
“province, the other to the northward of Lucknow. The 
* provin ce (of Sambalpur) extends from latitude 20°50" to 
‘ 22°15’ north and from longitude 83°28’ to 84°50’. It is bounded 
“to the west by the countries of Borashumber (Borasambar) 
‘and Rottunpur; to the east by Bimbara (Bamra), Lundacole 
‘““(Rairakhol) and Bod; to the south by Patna and Coondon 
. (Kharond) ; to the north by Gungpoor ‘and Soorgooja. Rot- 
‘countries above mentioned are small and _ insigniticant.”’ 
Finally on leaving Sambalpur he writes: ‘‘ October 4th. ‘I'welve 
‘miles from Whoamah I passed the bounds of the province of 
- “Sa ambhulpoor and entered that of Jonepur (Sonpur). Jonepur 
‘isa large town situated at the conflux of the Mahanuddee 
‘and Tail rivers the Rajah of which is ee ieee on Janoojee. 
‘The Rajah took no notice of me nor I o 
45. It is obvious from the above peasant that Mr. Motte 
in 1766 knew nothing of the “ Cluster of States” of which 
had so much information. The territories of the ‘‘Sambalpur 
Province ”’ are clearly defined and clearly differentiated from 
the adjoining *‘ countries,” and the title of “‘ Rajah of 18 forts” 
is treated as a merely conventional destgnation. but one mani- 
festly having reference only to the “ Sambalpur Province “— 
not to any cluster of states around it. It is surely curious too 
that, though Mr. Motte has nothing to say as regards this 
‘‘ Atharahgarh ” of States, Kittoe some 70 years later can give 
a partial list of the members of the confederacy which Major 
Impey in 1863 records in the fullest detail. Such a develop- 
ment of information varying inversely with the writer’s proxi- 
one time acknowledged the hegemony of Sambalpur and Patna 
is without historical foundation. 
46. e o consider how far the ordinary 
meaning of ‘ Atharahgarh” as indicating certain interior su b- 
divisions of a Raj can - applied to Sambalpur. ‘It will be 
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effort to apply it. But his un, of the internal organi- 
zation of the ‘‘ Province” is curiously analogous to what we 
know was the condition of Ratanpur and Raipur about the 
same time. He writes: ‘The Government of Sumbhulpoor 
