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latter, that it is necessary to trace the history of the extension of 
power across the Mahanuddy in so far as the grouping of the once 
known “18 Gurhs” shall be concerned. 
Relinquishment by the Rajah of Patna of territory and dominion on 
the left bank of the Ung River—Nursing Deo, the 12th Maharajah of 
Patna, and his brother Bulram Deo quarrelling, the former made over 5 
absolutely to the latter, (probably on compulsion,) all such portions of a 
his territories as lay north of the river Ung: the engagement between — 
the two brothers being that each was to be perfectly independent of — 
the other. Bulram Deo, taking possession of his allotment, erected 7 
a fort on the right bank of the Mahanuddy, exactly opposite the 
present city of Sumbulpore at Chowunpore, (where to this day the 
traces of his fort are visible,) and adopted the title of Rajah of 
Chowunpore. Shortly after this, he dispossessed Sirgooja of the depen- 
dencies of Suktee, Raigurh and Burgurh, and of the remaining por- ¢ 
tion, as before noticed, of Sumbulpore, and finally included Boad and — ) 
Atmullick, (now Gurjat States of Cuttack,) among the number of 
his territory mehals. After this, he abandonea the Fort of Chowun- — 
pore, and crossing the river, erected a mud fort on the opposite — 
bank. To this, he gave the name of Sumbulpore, from the number 

of Seemul trees that existed there on its site. Then changing © 
his own title to that of Maharajah of Sumbulpore, he founded a — 
dominion which soon took the real ascendancy over the parent State 
of Patna. = | 
The two states of Patna and Sumbulpore were now distinct, and | 
the area of the “28 gurhs’” was now fully embraced. But as yet — 
this number of Gurjat States with independent chiefs, tributary to — 
the two paramount rulers of Patna and Sumbulpore, were not fully 
formed. 5 
Enumeration of the 15 Gurhs of the Sumbulpore and Patna 
growp.—The then existing tributary Gurjat States attached to Sum~ 
bulpore were Phooljur, Sarungurh, Suktee, Raigurh, Burgurh, Bur- 
marr, Gangpoor, Bamra, Boad, Atmullick, and, by admission of the 
Sumbulpore Maharajah, Rehracole: to these may be added Chundur- 
pore, retained by the Maharajah under his own immediate authority. 
In Patna, the only dependency was Bindanawagurh. The total there~ 
fore of the “18 gurhs” or Gurjat States, during the time of Nursing 
