Dongurh : Marathi pronunciation Dungarpur a hillside town c.70km west of Idar & c.160km SW of Chittodgadh. It was the capital of Dungarpur kingdom founded in 1197 by Sāmant Singh, eldest son of Karan Singh of Mewār, a descendant of Bāppā. Dungarpur’s rules were descendants of Mahup, the eldest son Karan Singh, hence claim to be the elder line of the dynasty & bear the title of Mahā-Rāwal. Dungarpur town was founded towards the end of the 14th century by Rāwal Veer Singh who named it after Dungaria, an independent Bheel chieftain he had got murdered. Veer Singh died at Khanwa in 1527, fighting Babar alongside Rāṇā Saṅga & his kingdom was split into Dungarpur & Banswāra which is 90 km SW & was ruled successively by Mughals, Marathas & British. Under Pax Britannica, droughts & famines from 1818 to 1901 decimated the population of the State to 100,103 & of the town to 6094.

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Collected Plays and Stories > The Prince of Edur

... Strike but hear! For I have still news in my sack. You must gather your traps; we are to start for Dongurh in an hour. What, have I made your eyes smile at last? COMOL To Dongurh! Truth, Nirmol. NIRMOL Beat me in earnest, if it is not. Visaldeo himself told me. COMOL To Dongurh! To the woods! It is three years Since I was there. I wonder whether now The woodland flowers into... fathers wrought or listening silently Its soft continuous roar. Beyond that bend We shall see Dongurh,—Dongurh, our delight Where we were children, Coomood. COOMOOD Comol, our tree's All scarlet, as if splashed with crimson fire, Just as of old. COMOL O it is Spring, and this Is Dongurh. ISHANY Girls, we must not linger long. Page 868 Our Scythian, missing us,... Scene IV The forest near Dongurh. By the waterfall. Enter Captain and soldiers escorting Comol Cumary, Coomood, Nirmol and Ishany in palanquins. ISHANY ( from her palanquin ) Set down the palanquins. Captain, make void This region; here the princess would repose Beside the murmuring waterfall awhile And breathe into her heart the winds of Dongurh. Exit Captain with soldiers ...