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25. Rampur. An unmeasured malial probably the pargana of that 
name in Hazaribagh, known to, but not possessed, by the Mughals. 
26. Rajgarh. The celebrated Buddhist centre Rajgir. Abnl Fazl 
has substituted the familiar termination garh for the less common gir 
from Rajagriha the original Sanskrit name. 
29. Sihrah. There is now no parganah of this name, the village 
of Sahra is in the south-east corner of Ghayaspur. 
31. Siyur. There is no parganah of this name, but the fort of 
Sior or Siyur Muliammadabad is well known. It is in parganah Ruh and 
the mahal dependent on it seems to have been very extensive including 
not only Pachrukhi but also the great zamindari of Kharakdilia in 
Hazaribagh.* It is strange that its area should be given, while that of 
Ruh is not. The measurement, however, can refer only to a very small 
portion of the whole of this vast territory. 
33. Gidhaur. Gridhrapura = vulture-city. This is the capital of 
the great estate of this name ; even in Akbar’s time the Raja was one of 
the great chiefs of Bihar. The mahal included the modern pargana of 
Chakai and stretched nearly as far as Rohini. 
3d. Katibhara. I have been unable to identify this place. 
37. Ghati Bihar. This is now called Shahr ghati (vulgo Sher- 
gotty) and is a large and well known place at the foot of the ghats or 
mountain passes leading from the highlands of Chutia Nagpur to the 
plain of Bihar. 
38. Karanpur. A large parganah of this name is still extant south 
of the town of Hazaribagh. It was probably entered on the rent roll 
by Todar Mai merely on hearsay, the name having become known from 
the Muhammadan raids on Kokrah and Pundag. It could not have been 
actually subject to Akbar. 
The Sarkar of Bihar thus reconstructed occupies the whole of the 
modern districts of Patna and Gaya, the western half of the great plain 
of Magadha. It also includes certain tracts now included in the districts 
of Hazaribagh and Lohardaga in the Chutia Nagpur country, but as has 
been shown above, these latter tracts, such as Pundag, Chai-Champa, 
Karanpur, etc., were rather claimed, than possessed by the sovereign of 
Delhi, and it is impossible to say how far they extended. In the map 
which accompanies this article they have not been coloured but merely 
indicated by a line under the name. 
It may be interesting to students of the science of language to 
notice that the area of this Sarkar corresponds pretty accurately with 
the area of the modern Magadhi dialect of Bihar as shewn in the map 
prefixed to Part I of Mr. Grierson’s grammars of the Bihari language 
* Ibid, p. 129. 
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