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seize her, attacked the cavalcade, and her soldiers, not being able to face or oppose the enemy, yielded and gave themselves up. The queen solicited assistance from these two brothers, which they granted, and thus saved her from the grasp of her powerful enemy, though it cost them the life of one brother, Pirthi Chand. On hearing this, the Eaja of Argal received the surviving brother, Abhai Chand, with much cordiality, gave him his daughter in marriage, with the proprietorship of five villages as her .dowry. Eaja Abhai Chand then began to extend his dominion, and first of all founded a village called Abhaipur after his name, on the other bank of the river Ganges opposite the village Daundia Khera. The village still stands in the district of Fatehpur, North- Western Provinces. He then crossed the Ganges, and on this side drove out the Bha?s of the Daundia Khera estates after fighting a fierce battle there. He gave the name of Sangrampur to the place where he fought the battle. The word "Sangram" in Sanskrit means battle and bloodshed. His descendants increased their dominions rapidly Raja Sedhli Eae founded Sedhtipur, Ghatamdeo, Gh£tampur, Ranblr Singh, Eanbirpur alias Purwa now in Unao Raja Salhu, eighth in descent from Abhai Chand, extended his dominion from Salon to Lucknow, built himself a masonry fort in Kakori, and probably intended to attack Lucknow, but was ultimately murdered in the same fort. His son, Eaja Tilok Chand, was a very fortunate and prosperous man; his descendants are generally called Tilok Chandi Bais and some other clans, as Mahror and Bhale Sultan, also claim their descent from this great man. curious story is narrated of him, that one day while hunting game he was very thirsty, and having no attendant with him, he asked a Lodha, who was present there, to fetch him some water, which he brought in his own The raja, after drinking the draught of water and lota or drinking vessel. discovering that this man was a low caste Lodha, asked him to call himself thenceforth a Brahman, under the title of a Pathak of Amtara, as he was watching the 'am' or mango trees. This title still remains with his descendants, who are acknowledged as Brahmans. Eaja Tilok Chand had two sons, Pirthi Chand and Harhardeo from the former have descended Eaja Shiupal of Murarmau and Babu Eam Bakhsh of Daundia Khera, who was hanged on the charge of having been concerned in the murder of British The descendants of the latter are some of the taluqdars of Eae subjects. Bareli and of Haidargarh. The whole of this estate is called Baiswara, from the Bais being its exclusive proprietors. The Bais principally date their origin and greatness from this pargana Daundia Khera.*
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In the pargana arrangement of Akbar Shah the estate now known as the pargana of Daundia Khera was divided into three muh^ls (divisions), ^pargana Sedhfipur, pargana Unchgdon, pargana T^rgaon but this was modified by Eao Mardan Singh, the ancestor of Babu E^m Bakhsh, a century ago ; he had been a nazim of that place, and he joined all these in one pargana, calling it Daundia Khera, and that arrangement is still The pargana comprises 101 villages; in shape it is triangular, unaltered. eleven miles in length from east to west and eight in breadth from north to south it is 64 square miles in area, and is bounded on the east by pargana Sareni, on the west by pargana Ghatampur, on the south by the river Ganges, and on the north by parganas Bhagwantnagar and Ghatampur.
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