She had been in the habit of spending a day with her at my house once a week; and being the only European lady from whom she had ever received any attention, or indeed ever been on terms of any intimacy with, she feels the more sensible of the little offices of kindness and courtesy she has received from her.[10] Her husband, Narhar Sa, was the last of the long line of sixty-two sovereigns who reigned over these territories from the year A.D.358 to the Sagar conquest, A.D.

1781.[11] He died a prisoner in the fortress of Kurai, in the Sagar district, in A.D.
1789, leaving two widows.[12] One burnt herself upon the funeral pile, and the other was prevented from doing so, merely because she was thought too young, as she was not then fifteen years of age.

She received a small pension from the Sagar Government, which was still further reduced under the Nagpur Government which succeeded it in the Jubbulpore district in which the pension had been assigned; and it was not thought necessary to increase the amount of this pension when the territory came under our dominion,[13] so that she has had barely enough to subsist upon, about one hundred rupees a month.

She is now about sixty years of age, and still a very good-looking woman.

In her youth she must have been beautiful.