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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 
Kebe 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 Phooljwr.—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.—lIt 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 Ruttunpoor of 
that “ Gurh” with its surrounding lands. 
There still remained, to complete the circle known afterwards as 
the “28 Gurhs:” 
1st. The three Northern Guwijat states of Raigurh, Burgurh and 
Suktee, (dependencies of Sirgooja) ; 2ndly, the centrical tract of land 
{mow 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 

