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and so much of the lands (now) of Sumbulpore on the left bank of the 

 Mahanuddy, as were contained between Rehracole and Bamra to the 

 east, Bamra and Gangpoor to the north, and to the west by the river 

 Eebe to its sudden bend westward, and from thence by a line running 

 south, to the spot at the extremity of the present city of Sumbulpore 

 where now the Jail Bridge stands. 



Erection of a Fort in Phooljur. — Maharajah Bikrumdit Deo, the 

 ninth Rajah of Patna, erected a Fort in Phooljur at Seespalgurh, 

 where its remains are said to be still traceable : a proof this of the 

 unflinching authority then exercised over the Gurjat states. 



Acquisition of the " Gurh" of Chundurpoor. — It is probable that 

 the erection of this advanced post in a Tributary State had for its 

 aim, as much the extension of dominion, as the maintenance in 

 security of existing dominancy : for no sooner did the next, ruler, 

 Maharajah Baijul Deo 2nd, succeed to the Guddee, than he advanced 

 to Chundurpoor, and forcibly dispossessed the ruler of Buttunpoor of 

 that " Gurh" with its surrounding lands. 



There still remained, to complete the circle known afterwards as 

 the "28 G-urhs:" 



1st. The three Northern Gurjat states of Baigurh, Burgurh and 

 Suktee, (dependencies of Sirgooja) ; 2ndly, the centrical tract of land 

 (now an integral portion of the Sumbulpore district,) falling between 

 the Eebe and the line drawn therefrom, as before observed to the 

 present Sumbulpore Jail Bridge, and the Gurjat State of Sarungurh, 

 (also belonging to Sirgooja,) and lastly the two eastern Gurjat 

 States of Boad and Atmullrick. 



It never fell to the lot of Patna itself to include these remaining 

 States and lands within the scope of its authority or possession. 

 The completion of the circle was not effected till Patna had retired 

 from the banks of the Mahanuddy, so far as the mouth of the Ung 

 river near Binka, and a new state had sprung up under its auspices 

 (on the north of the Ung,) afterwards known as Sumbulpore. It might 

 therefore seem foreign to the object of these " Notes" as touching 

 Patna, to speak of the rise and power of this second State. Never- 

 theless the advance of the latter was so intimately connected with, 

 and so immediately the result of, the dominion of the former, and 

 again the decline of the former so direct an issue of the rise of the 



