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2 HIST011Y OF THE SIKHS.
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4 He then lived among the Kazarians, who supplied
5 him with grain ; but this failing, he took up his po¬
6 sition in the fort of Malakra, which was besieged F,,rto f Ma,a ’
7 by the Maharajah, and yielded after a few days,
8 and the Goorkhas agreed to leave the country,
9 after paying a ntizurana to the victor. Ummur
10 Singh and the Goorkhas thus left the country, car- Ummur Singh
11 rying all their families along with them. co»mry!*
12 For the fulfilment of the agreement with Sunsar
13 Chuhd, a son of the latter had been sent as a hos¬
14 tage, but on seeing the departure of the Goorkhas,
15 Sunsar Ghund refused t6 deliver up Kote Kangra. Su r nsar cb »“ a
16 Suda Koonwur seated herself on an elephant with up Kaugra.
17 the boy, and proceeding towards the fort, demanded
18 These were refused, until the son of
19 Sunsar Chund was made to say, that it was his induced to <io
20 r J so by Bu da
21 wish that they should be given up. The gates Koonwur.
22 Were then opened, and Suda Koonwur took pos¬
23 session of the fort, and released the son of Sunsar
24 Chund; who, on going to his father, related to him
25 the trick that had been played on him by the wily
26 Suda Koonwur. The rajah was 'greatly enraged
27 at his having been overmatched by a woman. Desa
28 Singh, Majeetheea, was appointed kffladar, or com '• Desa Sui'Th
29 mandant, of Kote Kangra. When the news spread "aTHnom-"
30 among the hill states, that the Maharajah was in ^
31 possession of a. fort, hitherto considered by them
32 impregnable, they readily yielded allegiance to the The wu states
33 Maharajah; who returned to Lahore through the
34 Bist Jalindhur, taking, as he proceeded, the village
35 of Hurreeanah. from the widow of Buggut Singh > taken.''