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Deo and Bulram Deo, Maharajahs respectively, of Sumbulpore and 
Patna, was 15, wanting to complete were Sonepore in the one case, 
and Khurriar and Borasamber in the other. 
Formation of the 8 remaining Gurjat States.—The necessity of 
providing for younger sons, caused the alienation from the parent 
states of Sonepore and Khurriar, Thus Sonepore, as far as the left 
of the river Ung, (the land on the right to the Sel river, still, as 
before noted, belonging to Patna,) its chief town being Binka, was 
constituted an independent tributary Gurjat State by the 4th Rajah 
of Sumbulpore, who made it over with the title of Rajah to his 2nd 
son Muddun Gopaul, And again the 15th Maharajah of Patna giving 
over three “ 
Goorhagurh, and Boomragurh, to his younger son Gopaul Roy, and 
the latter obtaining Khurriar as a dowry on his marriage with a 
gurhs” of the original eight of Patna, viz., Kholagurh, 
daughter of the Rajah of Jaipore, those gurhs merged into Khurriar 
and the whole was constituted one Gurjat state with the title of 
Rajah. 
The last created Gurjat was Borasambur the present chief of 
which owes his position to the cunning and power of an ancestor. 
Originally Borasambur coiisisted of eight villages, which went by the 
name of ‘“‘ Atgoan,” and formed a small zemindaree, part of the inte- 
gral state of Patna. It is stated that one of the zemindars of 
* Atgoan” having saved the life of a Sambur deer by killing a “ bora” 
or boa-constrictor which had attacked it, the name of the zemin- 
daree was changed to Borasambur. Notwithstanding the smallness 
originally of the area of the zemindaree, the proprietor was a man 
of some importance, he was chief of his caste-men, Bhinjwals—and, 
on the occasion of a new Maharajah being raised to the Guddee, it 
was his especial duty to take the latter on his lap and fold over his 
head the turban of state. Again, the zemindar held an important 
position: his lands were situated alone on the north side of the range 
of hills called Goondmardhum, which form part of the northern boun- 
dary of Patna, and thus he could hold the approaches through those 
hills to Patna for or against any hostile forces. It would appear that 
during the first inroads of the Mahrattas, the zemindar of Bora- 
sambur was successful in guarding these approaches. For this service 
he was granted an extension of property on the Patna side. What 
