History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c48.29

v2.c48.29

Mr. Cobden-Ramsay has also provided a second line of ancestors for the Sonpur-Patna group of chiefs by stating another legend according to which one Hamir Deva fled from Garh Shambar and established himself at Manikgarh in the hills of Khariar. He went to fight and was killed. He had seven queens, six of whom became *Satis*. The seventh was pregnant and found refuge in the forest between Patna and Khariar. She was protected by the aborigines of the Binjhal tribe and her son was Ramai Deva.² The uncertainty of the Rajas of Patna and Sonpur about their ancestry and their eagerness to ensure their descent from Rajput stock is proved by their inclusion of two different lines of ancestors on the same page of the account. Evidently there was some one behind one of the parties who had sufficient knowledge of ancient Indian History and Epigraphy to understand the value of the futile suggestion that Sambhal near Mainpuri was the original home of the so-called Chauhans of Patna-Sonpur and not Sambhar or Sakambhari in Rajputana.³