Punjab State Gazetteers, Volume XII a suket state with maps, 1904

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2Stxer Stirs.) Losses inder Arjan Sain. {Pant.A,

3Madan Sain was sticceeded by 28 R&jés whose reigns were as

4& rule uneventful. Mahan Sain was an immoral and profligate

5ruler who conceived a passion for the wife of » Brahman who was

6in his service and whom he kept employed at a distance so that he

7might carry on tho intrigue in his absence. But one day the

8Brahman, who had been warned that his wife was unfaithful, laid

9in wait for her paramour and killed him, without knowing he was

10the Réjé. The Rani burnt his remains without question and as he

11had left no son his uncle Haibat Sain, a just and dignified ruler

12whose reign only lasted 5 years, succeeded to the throne. Amar

13Sain and Ajemardan Sain succeeded each othor, their reigns being

14uneventful.

15An incident of the reign of Parbat Sain had consequences of

16fome importance. He disgraced a parohit who was suspected of

17intimacy with a slave girl bindi without proof and in consequence

18the Brahman committed suicide. After this incident the Réjd’s

19health began to fail though he bestowed wazirt Lag and Sari on

20the Brahman’s family, having reigned but 9 years. His successor

21Kartar Sain, thinking Lohéré was-under-the curse of Brahman

22murder, built a new capital above the Tardwari forest. below which

23he founded a town which he named Kartérpur and which is now

24known as Nagar Puriné, two miles east of Baned.

25Kartér Sain was married to a princess of Jaswin, a magnani-

26mous lady who bestowed many lands on Brahmans. ‘He died after

27a plorious reign of 28 years.

28In his short reign of 7 years Arjan Sain contrived to lose a

29large part of his dominions. Such was his arrogance that when the

30zaminddrs of waziri Rupi came to petition him he kept them waitin

31some days and when he came out of his palace to see them he asked

32whence the kure or ‘crows’ of Rupi had céme, and rejected their ree

33tee ‘In consoquence they betook themselves to the Réjé of

34Kuli, Bahddur Singh, who received them courteously, and so they

35transferred their allegianco to him and waztrt Ripi was thus

36lost to Suket. Other thdkurs also revolted and more than half the

37State territory was lost. Udai Sain did something to repair the

38mischief. He subdued the rebellious thikurs, among them the

39thdkur of Chedi whose jigir he confiscated, building the fort of

40Udaipur in mettory of his victory. He died ufter a reign of 11 years

41und was succeeded by Dip Sain who died after 28 years’ rule, bis

42son Shém Sain succeeding him.

43Shdém Sain had two Rénfs, princesses of Goler and Basbahr.,

44By the former he had two sons and a daughter.” The elder of these

45sons was named Rém Sain and the younger Pirthi Singh. He

46also had a son, named Hari Singh, by the Bashahr Réni, and she

47conspired with one Min Jugéhnun to make away with tho Réjé’s

48eldest son Ram Sain, but the plot was unsuccessful and she was

49(1) Bhe was married to Kalidn Chand, B4jé of Kabldr.

50CHAP. 5S