1 HISTORY Ol’ THE SIKHS.
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3 4>tim fh Inner and outer wall, with a ditch, and
4 thrive doors or gates. The extent ol the outer
5 wail was 5100 paces, its height seventy-five feet,
6 .and breadth twenty-one feet.
7 In the month of Bysakh, (April) Bik. 1881, or ^
8 a.x>. 1824, Sunsav Chund of Kutocli died. The au 8 .
9 Maharajah hearing of the event, left Umritsir, and
10 taking the road by Wittala, arrived at Deenariug-
11 gur, and-sent.-for the son of the deceased B,ajah, ; w^db y
12 who, after paying a nuzurana, was honoured with a
13 khillut, and appointed successor to liis lather.
14 In the course of this year, Motee Rani, and his
15 son Kerpa Ram, incurred the displeasure of the
16 Maharajah on the following account. Govhafd di«pi^wr».
17 Chund, the uncle of the Seepreewala, gave his
18 daughter in marriage to Dhyan Singh; and the
19 latter receiving tire fort ot Seepree, expelled
20 Kerpa Ram, who was greatly enraged, and ab¬
21 sented himself from the Basse rah, refusing to serve
22 the Maharajah. Soon after this, the Maharajah
23 marched towards the Attock, and remained several
24 days on the bank of the river ; at length, he crossed
25 on an elephant, and many sirdars and others, try-
26 ing to follow' him, were drowned, both horse and
27 foot. Among the rest, Moolves Musur Hussein.
28 Kerpa Ram, at this time leaving Phillour with t« joined by
29 twehty-fiv'e horsemen, reached the Attock, and
30 crossing it, joined the Maharajah, who was greatly
31 enraged, and ordered him from his presence, send¬
32 ing a purwannah at the same time to deprive his
33 father, Motee Ram, of the governorship of Cash-
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