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before liis death. The milk issuing from the wound ran in one 
stream while the blood flowed in another, creating two rivers in 
their course. The white and red waters of these rivers are still 
pointed out in proof of the miracle. The four wooden legs of the 
cot on which he breathed his last, shot forth branches and have 
grown into large trees that may still be seen at the place. 
The Rajah fled from the palace, but the ghost of Bhairan fol¬ 
lowed him wherever he went. Finding no place safe from the 
vengeance of the offended demon, Birma fled at last to Deoghar 
to seek for shelter in the great temple of Baijnath. But the de¬ 
mon appeared before the deity himself at his abode in Mount 
Kailas, to demand the surrender of the Rajah. So potent was the 
wrath of the Brahman demon, that the mount began to shake over 
the famous trident, on which the deity has fixed it, in order to 
make it more secure against earthquakes and other accidents to 
which this globe is subject. His wife, Parbati, became alarmed, 
but tbe deity told her to appease the demon by treating him as her 
brother. She accordingly approached like a hospitable and good 
Hindu lady wdth a lota of water in hand, and invited the demon 
to come and wash his feet, saying “ Welcome hither, Baijnath 
junior.” At this the demon became appeased, w r hen the god as¬ 
sured him that he had not succoured Birma in his temple, and that 
Bhairan was welcome to deal with his victim in the way he pleased. 
At the same time the omnipresent deity told Birma at Deoghar to 
go and seek for shelter in the Mundar, the place of Modhusudun. 
The unfortunate Rajah accordingly went to the Mundar, and thence 
wandered over various sacred places till he was killed at the top 
of Tirpahar,—crushed under the weight of a huge stone hurled 
at him by the ghost of Bhairan’s servant Raju Khawas. 
The ghost of Dube Bhairan pursued the remaining Rajahs of 
the Khetauri race and all that bore his name with unrelenting* 
hatred, till not a soul of this large but ill-fated family was left 
upon earth. There were fifty-two independent Khetauri Rajahs 
holding sway in different parts of Bihar, just before the Muhamma¬ 
dan conquest of the country, but. at the present time there are only 
four Rajahs, such as those of Bark op, Maliaganoya, and Mani- 
hari in sub-division Grodda, and Hanrua in sub-division Dumka, 
