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2 HISTORY OF TUB SIKHS,
3 Singh sent an army forward to seize it. When
4 Bagh Singh and Hookoomut Singh, the leaders of
5 this force, approached Wittala, Dhurrum Singh,
6 who was Thamahdur under Jye Singh, made his
7 escape over the wall. The city was taken posses-
8 sion of by the Ramghureea, and Soeean was the gLreea.
9 only place remaining in the hands of Jye Singh.
10 Jussa Singh then began to plunder the possessions
11 of the Ghuneeya on the bank of the Beah. A.t
12 this times Jye Singh was threatened from another
13 quarter, Sunsar Chund, the hill chief of Kutoch, Sunsarcimmi
14 bore enmity to Jye Singh, on account of the latter Jye
15 having taking Kote Kangra out of his hands: he
16 came as far as Hajeepore, seizing upon all the
17 country between that place and the hills, among
18 other Mukeriah; Atulghur, which is a fort outside
19 the city, remained in the possessions of Jye Singh.
20 A slave girl, named Dasser, defended the place
21 for four months against Sunsar Chund, who was *>ave giri.
22 obliged to raise the siege. The fort of Kangra
23 was likewise in the possession of Jye Singh. War
24 was carried on between Sunsar Chund and Jye
25 Singh for three years; at the end of which, Suda Suda Koou _
26 Koonwur, the .widow of Goorbuksh, resolved • to w» n»oiv«»
27 ^ . t0 ^arry
28 bring about-an alliance between the Sookurchukea'^a^w
29 mid Ghuneeya Missuls, by giving her daughter, Ruojcet
30 Meht.ab Koonwur, in marriage to Runjeet Singh,
31 the son of the Maha Singh, the head of the former
32 Missul Having thus concerted her plan, she pro¬
33 ceeded with her daughter to Juwala Mookhee, and
34 them visited Raj Koonwur, tire wife of Maha Singh,