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G. N. Dutt —History of the Hutwa Raj. 
Buddha’s contemporary and patron Pasenadi, and that the later legends 
represent the Sakyas as having been destroyed during' Buddha’s life¬ 
time.” It is, therefore, not improbable that Raja Bir Sen had received the 
Raj and the title from king Vidudabha for his services in subverting 
the S'akyas. 1 The fact that the ancient seat of the earliest Rajas were at 
Bharhichowra , Perg. Salempore, Majhowli, in the district of Gorakhpur, 
further goes to establish, this conclusion. The Baghochia Bhuinhars 3 to 
which the Hutwa Rajas belong still exist there. 
The patronymic of the earlier Rajas was “ Sen,” which in the 16th 
descent was changed to “ Simlia” and in the 83rd to “Mall,” and in the 
87tli to “ Shahi. ” The tradition is that these titles were conferred 
on them by the Emperor of Delhi. But this cannot at least be correct 
in the case of the 16tli Raja Jagat Sinha, whose date, according to the 
aforesaid calculation, comes to be about 150 B.C., when the modern Delhi 
was unknown. Although Yudhistliira, the hero of the Mahabharata, 
founded the city of Indraprastha, the site of which coincides with a 
part of Delhi, nothing was known of it till the beginning of the Chris¬ 
tian era, when king Dilu founded a new city which he named Delhi 
after himself. Moreover, at this remote period, the Maurya kings of 
Magadh, descendants of the mighty Asoka, were reigning in the Northern 
India and there was no “ Emperor ” or “ King of Delhi.” But the date 
thus ascribed to this Raja brings us very approximately to a historical 
incident. Meander, the Bactrian king of Sakala, in the Panjab, had 
advanced in 141 B.C., as far as the city of Saketa in Kosala (Ayodhya), 
but had to retrace his steps on account of the stubborn resistance he 
met with from Pusyamitra, the general of the last Maurya king, 
Brihadratha. It seems that Raja Jagat Sinha had assisted the Maurya 
king in driving out his enemies and thus got the title of “ Sinha ” 
which means ‘ Lion,’ an emblem of the Mauryas which is still found on 
the pillars of Asoka in these parts. But as the name of even the great 
king Asoka had been forgotten by the people, and has only been 
unearthed by the researches of scholars, everything of remote antiquity 
is erroneously ascribed to Delhi, the real fact having been lost in 
oblivion. 
1 When this paper was read in the meeting, Mahamahopadhyaya Hara 
Prasad Shastri argued that if we only loosen a little the rigidity of assigning 
the 25 years’ rule to each Raja, we could at once identify this Bir Sen, the founder 
of the Hutwa Raj family, with a historical personage, Bir Sen, who was General 
of the Sunga king and had conquered Deccan and was ancestor of the Sen kings of 
Bengal. 
2 The tradition is that the Bagachin Bhuinhars and the Bisen Rajputs, to which 
the Majhowli Rajas belong, are descended from the one and the same ancestor, 
Mayur Bhatt, who had four wives of four castes. 
