226 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
exist at one time or another. But it was never known as the 
digression into Sambalpur affairs. It is surely a proof of the 
Ipur. It w 
evidence of the 2nd half of the 18th century could be found 
to correct the fallacies of later writers. But the significance 
of what Motte and Prahlad Dube wrote would not have been 
noticed but for our investigations into the meaning of the term 
ra haga in the neighbouring territories of the Haihaibansi 
ings. 
51. Again we are forced by this digression to recognize 
the extraordinarily unreliable character of much of the evidence 
possess. We can put full trust in no one. The 
people of the country. And it is so still. Rai Bahadur Hiralal 
who served in the Sambalpur District and knows the people 
well tells me that the Atharahgarh are frequently enumerated 
by those who interest themselves in earlier days. The details 
given by one are not the same as those given by another. But 
one and all agree in enumerating what are now the feudatory 
States round Sambalpur. No one thinks of applying the term 
