1 A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE JUMMOO FAMILY. 231
2 (all proud of the glorious deed) affairs were so quickly managed
3 that before the morning dawned, and even before the Moslem
4 chiefs death was discovered, the dead corpse of Sooruj Dehu
5 was extracted from its recent position, and underwent the
6 ceremony of incremation ; while the faithful and heroic wife,
7 having- so well avenged the blood of her lord, now felt doubly
8 happy and proud in sacrificing herself on the same pile with
9 the murdered body of him for whom she had staked her honour
10 and her all. Their ashes, in charge of her brothers, and ac-
11 cording to her own orders, were before morning far from the
12 scene of these deeds, on the way homeward, or to the Gunga,
13 where ultimately those of both husband and wife were sacredly
14 deposited.
15 The date of this tradition is put down at about 392 of the
16 Hejira, and now the line of succession is resumed at the
17 51st member, the son of Sooruj Dehu, named Boje Dehu,
18 52d Oodum Dehu, 53d Peler Dehu, 54th Urjin Dehu, 55th
19 Oothar Dehu, 58th Jess Dehu, who had two sons, the elder
20 Kirpal Dehu, and the younger Singram Dehu, these were the
21 59th generation. As it has been before stated, most or all
22 of the Rajpoot families made a kind of temporary settlement
23 near the base of the hills, somewhere in the nighbourhood of
24 Noorpoor. But from some unknown cause, about the year
25 589 of the Hejira, these two brothers the sons of Jess Dehu,
26 left that quarter, where there seems to have been a general
27 breaking up or emigration, as the Rajpoots were scattered in
28 different directions. Both Kirpal Dehu and Singram Dehu
29 with some others of the family fought under the banners
30 of the 588 much famed Raat Pithoura at the battle of Thanessur,
31 and on their return to their homes, in the following year this
32 small Rajpoot colony about Noorpoor, &c. broke up and became
33 scattered in different quarters.