892 A few Notes on the subject of [No. 155. 



Kuttoora line, and the breaking up of that Raj into petty chiefships, 

 must have been rudely shaken at this period. Even allowing, that 

 subsequently, some kind of authority over this tract was regained, as 

 the Chund Rajahs became, one after the other, more and more 

 firmly seated on their mountain throne, the authority must have been 

 one exercised under permission on account of tribute yielded to 

 others, or, at best, under neglect or contempt on account of its in- 

 trinsic insignificance. 



The Puharrees, indeed, while boasting of their ancient boundary 

 on the south as Gunga-wdr, or, not short of the Ganges, almost 

 unanimously allow, that at one time, the possessions of their ancestors 

 in the plains were woefully circumscribed, if not altogether lost; and 

 that it was not without difficulty that Udhian Chund, the 30th of his 

 line, attained by some means or other an honorable and determinate 

 position in the Des for himself and successors. To continue, then, 

 the story, and answer the remaining questions placed at the head of 

 this paragraph, Roodur Chund found himself the lord of the Muhals 

 or Pergunnahs named below : — 



1. Suhujgeer, now called Juspoor. 



2. Casheepoor or Kotah, • . Casheepoor. 



3. Moondia, , Bazpoor. 



4. Guddurpoora, Guddurpoor. 



% \ Botear, \ Roodurpoor. 



o. ) [ Kilpooiy, 



7. Bukshee Nanuhnutta. 



8. 1 rij . t f Bilheree. 



9.) Chmkee > \Surbna. 



This whole tract, which is exclusive of the Upper Bhabur nearer 

 the hills, (of which I shall have to speak hereafter,) was called Choura- 

 see Mai, and Noulukhia Mai, ( mal' being, then as now, the hill term 

 for the low country. The former name was derived from the size of 

 the territory, which was reckoned at 84 coss in length, — the latter name 

 from the real or nominal revenue of the territory ; viz., nine lacs. The 

 boundaries on the west were the Peera or Peela Nuddee at Raipoor 



