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from a woman of the teli caste, who had degraded it to the purpose of giv- 

 ing weight to an oil mill. The discovery was made in a dream to Jagatpai 

 and the image is that now existing at Raju, as re-established by that Raja. 



10 this Raja was, what extent of country he governed, and in what 

 relation he stood to the Hayhayabansi Rajas of Ratenpur, the present in-? 

 scription seems to furnish the only means of deciding. 



"The Ratenpur family are generally believed to have reigned for many ge- 

 nerations over all Chattisgher and some of the neighbouring districts. There 

 is a Sanscrit inscription at Ratenpur, dated 915 Samvat, which contains a 

 list of nine Rajas, in the order of succession from father to son, including the 

 one by whose order the inscription was engraved. If the Shastri's version 

 of the Raju inscription is correct, Jagatpai conquered a Raja of Chattisgher 

 named Prithi Deo, In the Ratenpur inscription, Prithi Deo is mentioned, 

 as the great grandfather of the Raja in whose reign it was engraved. The 

 father of Prithi Deo named Rudra Deo is represented to have built a temple 

 and planted trees at Raju, and Prithi Deo, to have been a fortunate prince 

 and in his old age to have resigned his kingdom, called Kosala des, to his 

 son. The inscription at Raju is 119 years prior in date to that at Ratenpur. 

 Jagatpai and Prithi Deo therefore may have been contemporaries ; but it is 

 useless to speculate on the pointy until the two inscriptions have been cor? 

 jectly decyphered. 



sc One tradition is that Jagatpai was Raja of a place called Rajmah! 

 Turar now the village of Rakkah; and that having married the daughter of 

 a Raja of Drug he transferred his residence to that place. Respecting 

 Turar I have at present no information. Drug, is a town situated twenty- 

 five miles west from Rypur, and is the head of a Pergunnah of that name. 

 At Drug the tradition is, that Raja Jagatpai or one of his ancestors, built 

 the fort there, but nothing further is known regarding him. 



