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Bhairavendra. Some maidservants of the widowed Queen, who 
came to fetch water, asked them not to halt there as tigers used to 
come there at night. The brothers did not mind this warning, 
and stayed there, and actually killed some tigers, ‘his sprea 
the fame of their valour next morning so much so, that the 
Queen solicited their assistance in disentangling herself from the 
clutches of the Bhat minister. The brothers readily offered ad 
services, and succeeded i in killing the Bhat minister. The Queen, 
have proceeded to Puri, in Orissa, and to have been the founder of 
a new line kings of the Solar dynasty there. The fourth brother 
is said to have returned to Udaipur, 
Rao Bhanu Singh, according to some papers, cape to 
exist in the family of the present Raja of Deo, is said to have 
below, the last of whom, Rajakumara Jagannatha Prasada Nara- 
yana Simh of Deo, is now a minor, aged about 9 years, whose 
property is under the management of the Court of Wards. His 
father Raja Bhickham Narayana Simh Bahadtr died in 1898 a.p. 
Assuming that the accession of Rao Bhant Singh happened in 
1448, viz., after five years of the date of the last inscription of 
period of 450 , giving an average of thirty years to each 
reign. It is ead “that Atibala Singh, the sixth in descent from 
Rao Bhanu Singh, killed the then Muhammadan rulers of Deo, and 
removed his capital from Umga to Deo. The fort at Umga is now 
a a heap of ruins covering a large area and overgrown with jungle. 
Some traces of gateways, walls and wells can still be found, and in 
one of the rooms are still enshrined some family gods, to worship 
which the Rajas and Ranis of Deo even now use to go to the 
ruined soo once a year or at least on the occasion of marriages 
mb of Bijili Shahid at Deo, and one of Dana Shahid at 
Ketaki, a neighbouring village, are still associated by tradition 
with the conquest of Deo by Atibal Singh. 
In this connexion it may be said that almost all the peaks 
and ranges of hills in the southern iw of the district of Gaya 
have marks of ruins on them. Some of them were ok tee Soc 
strongholds of kings, while others were the sites of sacred shrines 
1(1) Rao Bhanu Simha. (2) Saihasa Malla Simha. (3) ee (4) Bis- 
vambhara Simha, (5) Kalyéna Simha. (6) Atibala Simha. (7) Nayapala 
a. ‘ 
Bhikham Narayana Simha B p 
arayana Simha Bahadur. ( % Rajkumara Jagannatha Prasida 
Nayana Singh ithe present proprietor of the Deo Raj). oe 
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