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



" after this lapse of time, Lulut Sah, the Rajah of Sreenugur dying, the 

 " brothers, Jykurut Sah who had succeeded to the rajship of Ghurwal 

 " on the death of his father, Lulut Sah, and Purdoomun Sah who had 

 " been set up in Kumaon, quarrelled. Jykurut Sah was desirous of es- 

 " tablishing Mohun Sing in Kumaon to the prejudice of his brother, 

 " having been bribed by him ; and Purdoomun Sah was naturally 

 " anxious to expel his elder brother and establish his younger and full 

 "brother Puracram Sah at Sreenuggur. In the mean time, Jykurut 

 " Sah died ; and Purdoomun Sah leaving Kumaon against the will of 

 " all, went to take possession of Ghurwal. He wished indeed to leave 

 " his younger brother Puracram Sah in Kumaon, but he was equally 

 " desirous of seizing upon Ghurwal ; this strife continuing, both left 

 u Kumaon in the charge of Hurruckdeo, and (shortly after uniting with 

 " Mohun Sing) fixed him there. Hurruckdeo being driven out, collected 

 " an army in the districts of Casheepoor and Roodurpoor, again attacked 

 " Mohun Sing, took him prisoner and placed him in confinement, and 

 " in retributive justice for the murder of the late Rajah and all his family, 

 " had him put to death.* He did not continue many months in pos- 

 " session of the country, when Lai Sing, the brother of Mohun Sing, 

 " receiving the assistance of Fyzoollah Khan of Rampoor entered Kuma- 

 ' ' on, and drove Hurruck and his party to the frontier of Ghurwal, where 

 " receiving assistance from Purdoomun Sah, he repelled the invading Ro- 

 " hillas, and regained possession of Almorah, the capital. Puracram 

 " Sah, however, always unsteady and unreasonable, took the part of 

 " Lall Sing ; and Hurruckdeo deprived of his assistance, retired with 

 " honor to Sreenugur. Lall Sing did not however reign long. A year, 

 u or a year and a half after, the Goorkha power invaded the country, when 

 " all the discontented people, and particularly the family of Jyekishen and 

 " Hurruckdeo took refuge with them and rejoiced in Lall Sing's final 

 " expulsion. "f 



* Mohun Sing was beheaded in the temple called Narain-ke-Than, two miles to the 

 North of Almorah, on the hill now called " Mount Browne." — 



f This report must throughout be taken cumgrano, for though true in regard to the 

 main facts, there is throughout a strong bias against the family of Mohun Sing and 

 Lall Sing, and an equally strong partiality towards the great rival family of the 

 Joshees. There is also one omission ; viz. that Hurruk Dev at one time set up a nomi- 

 nal Rajah, a near relation of Deep Chund, and called him Seeb Chund, after- 

 wards degrading him, and there is one exaggeration ; viz. that Mohun Sing gave up 



