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*Bihar Dev Killa (Aurangabad.Dev)Bihar
==History==
Dev Estate was founded by Sisodiya, saktawat(Bhanawat) clan of Ranavansh sisodia Rajput. Raja Prabil Singh founded the castle in late 17th century situated near the great ancient sun temple . The region was completely governed by Umgaa Estate of chandrawanshi rajput . In present it is situated near by Madanpur block situated along with National.Highway-2.
The last ruler of Chadravanshi rajpoot of umgaa estate was Raja Bhairwendra singh. Raja Bhairwendra handed all his power of Etate to sisodia rajpoot of in 1620 a.d.As Raja bhairwendra was not having son he was only having daughter,name princess bhasyawati . Actually elder son of Rana Sakti Singh , king Rana Rao Bhan singh son's sahatramal singh came to Umgaa Riyasat at evening for pilgrimage visit at Holy Gaya after and stay outside the premises of umgaa Estate .
Dev Known for greatest divine surya mandir prepared by viswakarma bhagwan is very old known of vedic era. Formerly, dev was under governance of Umga Estate famous for sapta surya mandir(seven temples of surya mandir ) six out of seven fall one is remaining .Earlier, the governance control over the three district Aurangabad , palamu , chatra. Later raja prabil singh shifted capital to dev.The last ruler of Chadravanshi Rajpoot of Umgaa Estate was Raja Bhairwendra singh. Raja Bhairwendra handed all his power of Estate to Sisodia Rajpoot in 1620 A.D. After married her daughter to Sahatramaal Singh son of Rana Rao Bhan Singh ruler of Bainsroregarh northern state of Mewar conquered by Rana Sakti Singh after the battle of Haldighati in the 1577 a.d..
As Raja bhairwendra was not having son he was only having daughter,name princess bhasyawati . Actually, elder son of Rana Sakti Singh , king Rana Rao Bhan singh son's Sahatramal singh came across to Umgaa Riyasat at evening for pilgrimage visit at Holy Gaya and decided to stay outside the premises of Umgaa Estate when Raja bhairwendra known that prince of Royal family had stay nearby his royal palace. He send his personnel’s to invite them to night stay on his palace . As Riyasat Umgaa was surrounded by This decedous forest fear with tiger and fearers animals . there personnel’s requested on behalf of Sahatramal singh to their along brothers and associate “ not to stay outside due to safety reason tiger come at night “. They refused the proposal of king Bairawendra singh and remain outside . Luckily, Tiger came at knight and attacked on them they killed them bravely with their safety sords and put as pillow and bed take a good sleep till next morning.When the royal guard came early in the early in the morning to look after them the see the dead tiger below their head as a pillow . the guard reported all the knight event to Raja Bhairvendra . the raja without and delay came to meet the brave persons. He asked about them. They introduced as the son of Rana Rao Bhan singh and grand son of Rana Sakti Singh, king of bainsroregard jagir of the Udaipur region of Mewar .their bravery inspired the king bhairvendra . the king invited rana bhanji to married his son sahatramaal singh with her daughter Bhasyavati (pani grahan sanskar). After married he handed over all the power and declared as the king of umga . The king who ruled the Estate Umga late shifted to dev the divine sura temple khown for the chatth puja were sisodiya after last King Bhairavendra handed to son in law Rana Sahatramaal singh. The sisodiya king who ruled Umga(dev)/after raja bhairavendra (chandravanshi rajpoot) 1.Raja Sahatramaal singh – son of Rana Rao Bhan Singh s/o Rana Sakti Singh(Mewar/Bainsroregard 200 k.m. near northside of Udaipur. Earlier northern frontier of Erstwhile Udaipur/Mewar.
2.Raja Tarachand Singh 3.Raja Viswambhar Singh 4.Raja Kalyan Singh 5.Raja Jujhar Singh 6.Raja Atibal Singh(brother of Jujhar Singh 7.Raja Nainpal singh 8.Rani Satyawati 9.Raja Pratap Singh 10.Maharaj Prabil Singh (founder of Dev Riyasat/Esatablised Dev Castle) 11.Maharaj Chatrapati Singh 12.Maharaj Fatehnarayan Singh 13.Maharaj Ghanshyam Singh 14.Maharaj Mitra Bhan Singh 15.Maharaj Jaiprakash Singh(veer Bhartendu) 16.Raja Bhishma Narayan Singh 17.Raja Jagnath Singh (died in 1938 and end of the dev royal family and finally take over the power of governance by thr Britishers.) As he not having son. Aurangabad is called as the Chittore of Bihar .As the region is highly populated by the Rajpoots. This is the land of Rajpoots who have struggle the odds of Mughals, Brithishers , Naxalites.60% of the population is of Rajpoot. The Rajput clan are Chouhans,Chandarvanshi (somwanshi) ,Sishodia(Ranavansh) , Rathore, Parmar, Bais (shirmour), Ahirwar. Out of them the chouhans are densely populated, Sishodia are in Second Desly Populated. As Dev Riyasat was govrned by Sisodia and respected among all Rajpoot because of being Mewari . Local People called sisodia as mariyadi. The villages of Sisodia Rajpoots are-Dev, Umgaa ,Riyasat Ghatrain, Rankappi, Bania, Mahuawaan,Aajan ,Pemaa, Baarah,dadhpa,Panchokhar,Berhni,khargdiha, katayia,ketaki, basdihaa, bahuaraa,sadkaar,The Magadh region was one of the oldest and strongest empires of the world in the Ancient period and its boundaries (600-250 BC) spread across to parts of the (now present) countries of Burma, Pakistan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, apart from India. This was the region about which Megasthenes (3rd Century BC), a Greek writer, traveller and scholar wrote with much awe and inspiration about his empire . This killa belonged to sisodia vans of rajputs.The last king of dev(state was raja jagganath,he had no sons.chhoti rani took charge after his death(he had two rani).she did rule upto 1947 and submerged in swatantra bharat after independence.late shri Muneswar singh(manager of the state,had power of otterny given by chhoti rani)had signed on paper for vilay(merge) in independent india. chhoti rani had adopoted children of her sister named badi mani.manzli mani and chhoti mani.Choti mani has one son and manzli mani has eight sons,shri Dhananjay singh is eldest one,he is alive and live in gaya Shri Mrityunjay kumar singh the fifth brother has worked on the history of Dev killa He has written books(Dev-Darshan) & participated in many exhibitions on Dev Killa lives in Patna .this is history of the killa.The Sisodia Royal Family now live in Bangalore.
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