1885.] 
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S'ri Narayan Singh —■The battle of Kanarpi Ghat. 
Darbhanga District. His great-grandson Markande Jha, is the Bakhshi 
to the present Maharaj, as follows : 
Goknl Hath Jha. 
Saoe Jha. 
Mohan Lai Jha. 
Markande Jha. 
The Sarb Jan Jha mentioned in Chhand 6, 1. 7, was a famous pro¬ 
phet, who knew everything. A story of him is told that his servant 
once accidentally threw away his Narbadeswar (an image of S'iva). 
Shortly afterwards Sarb Jan missed it, and declared that it had been 
eaten np by one of his ducks. All the ducks were brought before him, 
and he picked out one, which was killed. In its crop was found the 
missing image. 
The poem is full of names of persons and places of whom and which 
little or nothing is at present known. 
Narendra Singh is the most celebrated. Of him the poet Chandra 
Jha, says in his Maithil Ramayan, 
ftmfci ftrf srew i 
3?; 3<T«T*T trap’s! II 
cllftl UTpR ?ryR I 
toct ii 
Jiff iwi'f lift i 
si 
^ifcras cipra cre^rft a 
* When Narendra Singh became king, weeping filled his enemies’ houses. 
He searched for and became a destroyer of his foes, and performed 
many chivalrous actions. Nowhere did he lose a battle, and his sword 
was very sharp.’ 
The other names recorded will, if they can be identified, be useful to 
students of history of the last century. 
The author of the poem, Lai Jha, a brahman, lived in Mangrauni 
Pargana Hati, Darbhanga District. His great-grandson is now alive in 
the same village. The family still owns the village of Kanail which was 
given to the poet by Narendra Singh. 
The metres employed in the poem are the Doha (Nos. 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 
12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 23, and 25), the Bhujangaprayat (Nos. 2, 6, 11, 17, 
19, 21, and 24), the Narach (Nos. 4, 15, and 22), the Tribhangi 
(Nos. 8 and 13), and the Padakulak (No. 9). 
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