History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c41.146

v2.c41.146

Motte entered the Daspalla State, twelve miles from Kullu, the Rājā of which collected a tax from travellers for passing through the Barmul pass. He obtained 20 men as guides and escorts from the Rājā of Daspalla, who paid scant attention to the pass or Dastak given to Motte by Bhavāni Pandit. There was a fort in the Barmul pass where Motte halted for a day and left the place on the 19th. Barmul pass was 600 yards from the fort and a mile in length. It was too narrow to be passable for wheeled carriages. Emerging from Barmul, the descent was nine and a half miles in length and led to the State of Baudh. When Raghuji Bhonsle I entered Orissa at the instigation of Mir Habib, he found the Garhjat States tributary to the Rājā of Khurdah. Raghuji made the chiefs of Dhenkanal, Banki, Narsinghpur, Tigiria, Talcher, Khandapara, Daspalla, Hindol, Angul and Baudh independent of the Khurdah Rājā. After the death of Raghuji Bhonsle I the tribute from the hill Rājās was not regularly paid and had to be enforced by a contingent of troops.