SONG OF THE FAMINE. 
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(seed necklaces), sutis (neck rings), navagrahs and pachlcharis (two kinds 
of armlets), and lasunis (bracelets) were all expended. 
25. Then not even brazen utensils escaped ; for the people’s fate 
became still worse. Water-jars, small jars, and spittoons, and rice-pots of 
every kind. 
26. Cups, bowls, betel boxes, and plates for eating in. Neither 
drinking cups, after the fashion of Madhab Sib, nor even small drinking 
cups were saved. 
27. None of the household wealth escaped. All went to the pawn¬ 
broker ; still hunger did not desert them, and their bellies became as it were 
pits. 
28. Then the “ Company” took the form of a portion of the deity, by 
the help of Ram. When she heard that the city of Mithila was about to 
be drowned, she ran up to save it. 
29. She bought food and filled sacks and loaded them in ships. 
Special native soldiers and white soldiers from Wilayat were entrusted with 
the duty. 
30. To Hajipur there came thousands of hundreds of thousands of 
bags, and many hundreds of thousands to Patna; and in the granaries of 
Bazitpur and Sultanpur, I cannot tell how many there were. 
31. Waggons, bullocks, carts and camels carried all kinds of grain 
throughout Bihar. The place where they were told to meet was Kanhaia 
Misra’s tank (in Darbhanga). 
32. Maharaja Lakshmesvar Sih, Maharaja of Mithila, the immovable 
Lord of Darbhanga, the lord of Lakshmi, relieved the distress. 
33. Thousands of lakhs of carts and bullocks became entangled 
together; the first golds (granaries) were those at Madhubam, Bhawara, 
Jafra, and Arer. 
34. I sing also of Bempatti, and the Pach Mahala, Kumhrauli, 
and Kamtaul: Hariharpur, Piraruch, and much work was there in Bariaul. 
35. I sing of Bari Pokhari, and Birsayar. And who does not know 
Pandaul P Nabahad (Lohatli factory), Sarisao (Surso), and Bhatpura, and 
to the south of it, Ujain. 
36. I sing of Jhanjharpur, Mahrail, Kanhauli, and especially of 
Madhepur. Benipur, Ivaman (Kewan factory), Narahiya (Naraya), and 
Phulparas. 
37. Jhamna is a place renowned in the world, and so are Mahtha and 
Bachhaur, and the relief circuits extended from them to Duhabi, Mahinath- 
pur, and Jainagar (on the frontier). 
38. I sing of Baldebpur, and Dhanga, and Mirzapur where there is a 
small market, Sibipati and Kapsia and the chief gola at Saurath. 
39. The Hakims came into Tirhut and relieved the poor. If they 
