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points by the High Court. The result is, that their Lordships will 
humbly advise Her Majesty to dismiss both the appeal and the cross 
appeal with costs. The appellant and respondent will each bear the 
costs of his appeal. 
Note. 
Hutwa Raj in the “ Ain-i-Akbari.” 
When I had the honor of reading my paper on the History of the 
Hutwa Raj in the Society’s meeting on the 4th March, 1903, Colonel 
Hendley, Vice-President in the Chair, very kindly suggested to me to 
ascertain if any account can be gathered from the Ain-i-Akbari regarding 
the Hutwa Maharajas. I had since the occasion to carefully look 
through the Ain, and the result of my investigation is embodied in the 
following note. 
The Ain is singularly wanting in information of any of the Behar 
Rajas which claim their origin from the Mughal Emperor of Delhi, 
Akbar, Jehangir, or Shah Jehan. “ The Darbhanga family trace their 
origin to one Mohesh Thakur, who originally came from near Jabalpur, 
in the Central Provinces, in the beginning of the sixteenth century and 
took service as a purohit or priest under the ancient Rajas of Tirhut, the 
descendants of Sheo Sing. After Tirhut was conquered and the race of 
that prince became extinct, Mohesh Thakur is said to have proceeded to 
Delhi, where his abilities procured him an introduction to the Emperor 
Akbar and subsequently the grant of the Darbhanga Raj. According 
to another account, it was one of his pupils, Raghunandau Thakur, who 
went to Delhi, obtained the Raj, and then out of appreciation for Mohesh 
made it over to him ” (vide Hunter’s Statistical Account of Bengal, 
Vol. XIII, p. 208). But neither the names of Mohesh Thakur nor 
Raghunandan Thakur belonging to Darbhanga, nor any account of Sheo 
Sing and the overthrow of his descendants and the extinction of his 
race is available in the Ain. Neither do we find the name or any ac¬ 
count of Bettiah or its “ first Raja, who was Gaj Sing and who obtained 
the title from Emperor Shah Jehan ” (ibid, p. 252). Likewise we do not 
find any mention in the Ain of the very ancient Majhowli Raj, which, 
I am informed, still retains a jewel-handled sword gifted by Akbar. 
The traditions of these Rajas should not therefore be rejected as pure 
fabrications, as we find from the Ain itself that out of 1,803 names, 
Abul Fazl gives the names of only 415, the chief ones, and that 
also of those only who were alive or dead prior to the fortieth year of 
Akbar’s reign, i.e till 1595 A.D. (vide Blochmann’s Ain-i-Akbari, Vol. I, 
pages 526-35). The omission of the names in the Ain of Maharaja 
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