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 Doulat 83 Durgawati nephew and adopted son of Madhoji Sindhia, wiiom he succeeded to the raj of Gwaliar in March, 1794 A. D., 1208 A. H. His violence, rapacity and lawless amhition, were the main causes of the war in 1802 with the con- federate Marhatta chieftains. Hostilities having broken out with the British, Sir Arthur "Wellesley (afterwards Duke of Wellington) defeated Doulat Eao at Assaye in 1803, while Lord Lake drove the J^Iarhattas from the whole of the Doab. He married Bajf Bai, reigned 33 years, and died on the 21st March, 1827, 21st Sh'aban 1242 A. H. He was succeeded by Jhanko Eao Sindhia. Doulat Shah, '^^J'^, sonofBakht Shah of Samarkand, and author of the Biography of Poets called " Tazkira Doulat Shahi." He flourished in the reign of Sultan Husain Mirza of Hirat, sumamed Abul Ghazi Bahadur, and dedicated the work to his prime minister, the celebra- ted Amir Kizam-uddin 'Alisher. This work was written in 1486 A. D., 891 A. H, and contaias the Lives or Me- moirs of ten Arabian, and one hundred and thirty-four Persian poets, with various quotations from their works, and anecdotes of the princes at whose court they resided. It also gives an account of six poets then residing in Hii-at ; two of whom were principal ministers of the Sultan ; viz., 'Alisher, and Amir Shaikh Ahmad Suheli. Vide Faezi Earmani. He died in 1495 A. D. Dlindey Khan, ^i*Jj {J-^ '^'^ii'^', a Eohila chief, and son of 'All Muhammad Khan, the founder of the Eohila Government. In the partition of lands which were assigned to the chiefs, in the time of Hafiz Eahmat Khan, Diindey Khan obtained the districts of BisauH, Murada- bad, Chandpur and Sambhal in Eohilkhand. He died previous to the Eohila war which took place in 1774 A. D., leaving three sons, the eldest of whom Miihib-ullah Khan, succeeded to the largest portion of his territories. Dunyapat Singh (raja), "^k^^ '^b- His father died in 1790 A. D., at which time he was only seven years of age. He inherited from his grandfather Eup Eae the Chaklas of Kora, Fathapur and Kara, but was dispossess- ed by the Nawab Wazir, and a Nankar allowance of 24,000 rupees granted to the raja on his exclusion. This was subsequently reduced to 7,500 rupees. The original grant amounted to 52,000 per annum, payable from 14 mahals, but in 1770 A. D., the Nawab Najaf Khan acquiring unlimited dominion over these provinces, dis- possessed his father of eleven of the villages, by which his income was reduced to 20,000 rupees. In 1787 his father was dispossessed of the remaining three villages by Zain- ul-'Abidin Khan, the 'Amil,but as the raja was about to proceed to hostilities, the 'AmO. agreed to allow him 10,000 Es. for the first year, and 20,000 thereafter, but failed in the fulfilment of his promise. In 1792 A. D., Zain-ul-'Abidfn died, and was succeeded by his son Bakar 'AH Khan, and from that period up to 1802, the raja Du- niapat Singh was allowed 8,000 rupees per annum, which was confirmed by Government in 1805 in perpetuity. DupleiX, a French officer, governor of Pondicherry. In 1750 A. D., he was elevated to the rank of a Haft Hazari, or Commander of seven thousand horse, and permitted to bear an ensign, assigned to persons of the highest note in the empire, by Muzaffar Jang, viceroy oi the Dakhan, after his victory over his brother Nasir Jang who fell in battle. Durduzd, ^j^ J*^j Durduzd of Astrabad. Durgawati (Rani), i^^J^J^ i^h) daughter of Eana Sarika. Vid^ Silhaddi. Durgawati (Rani), ijrj^^ji) i^^-, the daughter of the laja of Mahoba, who was much celebrated for her singu- lar beauty. Overtures had been made for an union, with Dalpat Sah, raja of Singalgurh (which is situated on the brow of a hill that commands a pass on the road about half way between Garha and Sangar ;) but the pro- posal was rejected on the ground of a previous engage- ment, and some inferiority of caste on the part of the Garha family, who was of the race of the ChandeH raj- puts. Dalpat Sah was a man of rmcommonly fine ap- pearance, and this added to the celebrity of his father's name and extent of his dominions, made Durgawati as desirous as himself for the imion, but he was by her given to tmderstand, that she must be relinquished or taken by force, since the difference of caste would of itself be otherwise an insurmountable obstacle. He marched with all his troops he could assemble, met those of her father and his rival,- — gained a victory and brought off Durgawati as the prize to the fort of Singalgurh. Dal- pat Sah died four years after their marriage, leaving a son named Bir Naraj'an about three years of age, and his widow as regent during his minority. Asaf Khan, the imperial viceroy at Kara Manikpur on the Ganges in the province of Allahabad, invited by the prospect of appro- priating so fine a country and so much wealth as she was reputed to possess, invaded her dominions in the year 1564 A.D., at the head of 6,000 cavalry and 12,000 well dis- ciplined infantry, with a train of artUlery. He was met by the queen at the head of her troops, and an action took place in which she was defeated. She received a wound from an arrow in the eye ; and her only son, then about 18 years of age, was severely wounded and taken to the rear. At this moment she received another arrow in the neck ; and seeing her troops give way and the enemy closing around her, she snatched a dagger from the driver of her elephant, and plunged it in her own bosom. Her son was taken ofi" the field, and was, un- perceived by the enemy, conveyed back to the palace at Churagarh, to which Asaf Khan returned i mm ediately after his victory and laid siege. The young prince was killed in the siege ; and the women set fire to the place under the apprehension of suffering dishonor if they fell alive into the hands of the enemj-. Two females are said to have escaped, the sister of the queen, and a young princess who had been betrothed to the young prince Bir Narayan ; and these two are said to have been sent to the emperor Akbar. In this district of Jabbalpur, the marble rocks and the palace called Madan Mahal is worth seeing. There is some doggrel rhyme about this palace which is not generally known, though of some interest. This building stands on a single granite boulder, and was constructed by the Gond princess Eani Durgawati, at the time of the Muhammadan invasion of Central India. Years after the cession of the country to the British, a wag of a Pandit wrote on the entrance door of the palace the following lines : Madan Mahal ke chhain me, Do tangon ke bich, Gara nau lakh rupi, Aur sone ka do int. Translation — In the shade of Madan Mahal Between two boulders There are buried nine lakhs of rupees And two bricks of gold. It did not take long for the news of the appearance of this writing on the door to spread abroad, and the very person to fall a dupe to the Pandit's trick was Captain Wheatley, at that time a Political Assistant at Jabalpur. He mustered some peons and laborers, and having pro- ceeded to the spot, commenced digging for the treasure on the part of Government. The native lady, in whose possession was the village lands on which the palace stood, came rushing down to the Agent to the Governor-General and represented that she was being plundered of her