1S83.] J. Beames— Notes on the History of Orissa. 247 
Lala Kishor Rai is also mentioned as Faujdar, but his date is not 
certain. He is said to have founded the Lala Bazar near Barabati in the 
town; and to have built a Baradari or twelve-doored palace near that 
place. 
After h im came Raghunath Sarang whose name is connected -with the 
village of Raghunathpur, eighteen miles east of Cuttack; he was suc¬ 
ceeded by Motiram whose administration lasted for a long time, some say, 
for fifteen years, but this is improbable as the Marathas were constantly 
changing their officials, and few, even of the higher grades, held office for 
more than four or five years. In his time an expedition was sent against 
Bairagi Bhanj, Raja of Moharbhanj who had withheld his peshkash. This 
expedition returned victorious and brought with it, besides the captive 
Raja, two idols of Hanuman and Lachminarayan which are still wor¬ 
shipped in temples in the town. 
The last Maratha Faujdar of Balasore was Mayura Pandit, com¬ 
monly called Moro Pant who lived on the site where the Jagannath 
temple in Balasore now stands. He appears to have been a rapacious 
tyrant, and there are several allusions to him in Captain Morgan’s early 
letters. When defeated by the English, he retired to Cuttack plundering 
the ryots as he went, and in the following year we find the revenue 
authorities allowing remissions on account of rents forcibly collected in 
advance on his retreat by Moro Pant. Oddly enough he is stated in the 
correspondence to be still residing in Cuttack, and it is suggested that he 
be brought to account for his spoliations, but the wise policy of passing 
a sponge over all transactions of the former Government, which prevailed 
at that time probably saved him, as we do not read of his being questioned. 
To close the account of the Maratha period, I here bring together 
various facts or traditions which I have collected from natives of the 
district. The town of Balasore in those days consisted principally of the 
bazars which had grown up round the English and Dutch settlements, 
and of the suburbs lying along the river, then as now, chiefly inhabited 
by Muhammadans, as Ivasba, Muhamadpur, Nurpur &c. Motiganj, now the 
centre of the town, and the principal market-place was founded by 
Motiram, probably about 1785—1790. The rest is described as a plain 
covered with jungle and scrub. The road to Jagannath ran through the 
town past the Gargaria tank to Phulwar Ghat and must have been from 
the nature of the country almost impassable for six months of the year. 
Rents were paid chiefly in cowries, and all collections were remit¬ 
ted to Cuttack once in three months, including the peshkash from 
Morbhanj and Nilgiri. The peshkash of Amboh, Keonjhar, Sokinda, 
Chidra and other mehals near the Baitarani appears to have been paid 
through the Faujdar of Bhadrakh. Old men still remember to have heard 
