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enclose, and if so they must be at least 500 years old. The bricks 

 were as hard as if they had beon taken out of the kiln but yesterday. 

 I could not gather any traditions in the neighbourhood connected 

 with these remains of a former power. All that I have been able to 

 collect is given in the chapter on History and Traditions. 



The ruins of Madhota, one of the former capitals of the Bustar 

 Bajas, along with those of Old Bustar, are hardly worthy of remark. 

 There are no buildings of a permanent structure, and the remains of 

 mud walls and ditches are all that can be traced. Near Bajapoor, a 

 few miles north of Chitterkote, there are the ruins of a palace built by 

 Rajpal Deo ; his favourite son having died at Madhota he wished to 

 remove his capital to Bajapoor ; owing, however, to its vicinity to the 

 Narenjee river, it was subject to inundations, and the people could not 

 be induced to remain there, and upon the death of Rajpal Deo, soon 

 afterwards, the palace was deserted and fell into ruins. 



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