Rishabh deo Singh born today,in 1917 at Kaithi,Katehar.
My father was born on the Krishna-janmasthami day at mid-night,coinciding with the birth of Lord Krishna,many centuries ago,as the second son of Thakur Raj kumar Singh and a grandson of Mahayogi Bharat Singh,in the House of Sees Chand,the grandson of Rai Chan Singh,who was established in Kaithi,at the tender age of five,by his father Rai Khem Raj Singh,the eldest son of Baba Pukar Rai of Niyar deeh Kot, in 1465AD.
There was a great commotion in the household,specially in the ladies quarters,of the Maha Yogi,as coinciding the birth of the new child with that of the Yogiraj Krishna,was held to be inauspicious as for as the life-line of the child born,simultaneously with that of the Kanahaiyya- NandLala, the Girdhar Gopal in the Janmashthami being announced tumultuously with conches and jingling of bells in the adjoining temples and houses of the other Thakurs of the village
The great astrologer,Pd.Satya Narain Pandey was sent for,with urgency from Bharat baba,who responded immediately,as he was held so dearly by the Mahayogi.The almanacs were duly consulted and what the naïve women feared was found to be true.Indeed,the newly born had a very short span of life,as the purpose of his birth was to produce progeny who would carry the lineage of Sees Chand and Rai Chan Singh for long and far and wide around the continent.Bharat baba was aghast and as the child was seen as a progenitor,he called him “Rishabh”,meaning a bull,then added “Deo”,which became the name of the first Tirthanker of the Jainees,situate nearby,next to the demolished mud-fortress of Doman Deo.
Rishabh Deo Singh fathered three sons and a daughter and died at the age of 35 in 1952 on 28th of june,in Varanasi,in all probability by poisoning.The other part of the sooth-saying is in progress,with bitterness amongst themselves,for doing away with the property,for the consolidation of which Rishabh Deo Singh gave his life,as exhorted by his elder brother,in his letters from Bareilly,for upholding the dignity of the most prominent house of Kaithi(his concept stopped at that)
Similar scenes had taken place at the time of the birth of the first born of Thakur Raj Kumar Singh on the 12th of Dec. 1901 ,after Satya Narain Pandit consulted the horoscope of the newly-born,then.Again women folk started to wail as he had his great grand-father’s fate in the end of his life ,i.e. Sanyas-ashram and total “Virakti ”, WHICH WAS ONLY PARTIALLY TRUE ,owing to my persuation of guiding me in order to overcome the utter disaster for the village,brought about by the the change of course of river Gomti on 7.9.1980,by which suddenly the village seemed to have lost 626.04acres of alluvial and most precious cultivable land of the village,overnight and all of us were bereft of livelihood.
Even Sri Bhanu Pratap Singh was born on the Krishna-Janmashthami day in 1917,but not like my father,where the time was exactly the same as that,reputedly of Lord Krishna.
This is a tribute to his father from his eldest son,burdened with the duties of honour and survival of the first house of the Raghuvanshies of Katehar,on the father’s birth anniversary,in 2009,to seek blessings and guidance,honesty of purpose and courage to carry-on regardless,aspiring and dreaming of the raj(as Dashrath-bo malhain would say) of Bharat baba,and yet facing the slings and arrows of the outrageous fortune and still facing the murderous streak of the elements that had done my father in,long long ago,as the fight in side the brotherhood of the Zamindari scions,continues unabated,just as described by the famous appointee of Lord Cornwallis,viz.Jonathan Duncan,the instrumentalist of the permanent settlement,upto Varanasi commissionerate,in1793,had described in his letters to the Board of Revenue at Calcutta and to the Governor General in Council.They are still going for the jugular,to retain old primacy,with the help of newly acquired wealth(buying the thana wholesale).
I hope to build “Jaipal Singh Hall of fame of the 1st House of the Raghuvanshies of Katehar”,before I too have my rendezvous with death,naturally or otherwise.In my considered opinion there was only one flaw in the exalted and short life of my father,viz. his early demise and I don’t want to follow suit,in that undoing,as there may not be another to complete my own and my late,lamented father’s mission.If Ram Rup Singh lived life akin to royalty,his younger brother was a nobility incarnate and I am , forever, proud of him and it is my honour to have been born as his son,and the eldest at that with the privilege of forever being in the mire,even for the good deeds done,off and on.I shall prod on ,nevertheless,thinking of my father.
His adoring son.
Suresh Pratap Singh
At Navi Mumbai
14th of August,2009.
My father was born on the Krishna-janmasthami day at mid-night,coinciding with the birth of Lord Krishna,many centuries ago,as the second son of Thakur Raj kumar Singh and a grandson of Mahayogi Bharat Singh,in the House of Sees Chand,the grandson of Rai Chan Singh,who was established in Kaithi,at the tender age of five,by his father Rai Khem Raj Singh,the eldest son of Baba Pukar Rai of Niyar deeh Kot, in 1465AD.
There was a great commotion in the household,specially in the ladies quarters,of the Maha Yogi,as coinciding the birth of the new child with that of the Yogiraj Krishna,was held to be inauspicious as for as the life-line of the child born,simultaneously with that of the Kanahaiyya- NandLala, the Girdhar Gopal in the Janmashthami being announced tumultuously with conches and jingling of bells in the adjoining temples and houses of the other Thakurs of the village
The great astrologer,Pd.Satya Narain Pandey was sent for,with urgency from Bharat baba,who responded immediately,as he was held so dearly by the Mahayogi.The almanacs were duly consulted and what the naïve women feared was found to be true.Indeed,the newly born had a very short span of life,as the purpose of his birth was to produce progeny who would carry the lineage of Sees Chand and Rai Chan Singh for long and far and wide around the continent.Bharat baba was aghast and as the child was seen as a progenitor,he called him “Rishabh”,meaning a bull,then added “Deo”,which became the name of the first Tirthanker of the Jainees,situate nearby,next to the demolished mud-fortress of Doman Deo.
Rishabh Deo Singh fathered three sons and a daughter and died at the age of 35 in 1952 on 28th of june,in Varanasi,in all probability by poisoning.The other part of the sooth-saying is in progress,with bitterness amongst themselves,for doing away with the property,for the consolidation of which Rishabh Deo Singh gave his life,as exhorted by his elder brother,in his letters from Bareilly,for upholding the dignity of the most prominent house of Kaithi(his concept stopped at that)
Similar scenes had taken place at the time of the birth of the first born of Thakur Raj Kumar Singh on the 12th of Dec. 1901 ,after Satya Narain Pandit consulted the horoscope of the newly-born,then.Again women folk started to wail as he had his great grand-father’s fate in the end of his life ,i.e. Sanyas-ashram and total “Virakti ”, WHICH WAS ONLY PARTIALLY TRUE ,owing to my persuation of guiding me in order to overcome the utter disaster for the village,brought about by the the change of course of river Gomti on 7.9.1980,by which suddenly the village seemed to have lost 626.04acres of alluvial and most precious cultivable land of the village,overnight and all of us were bereft of livelihood.
Even Sri Bhanu Pratap Singh was born on the Krishna-Janmashthami day in 1917,but not like my father,where the time was exactly the same as that,reputedly of Lord Krishna.
This is a tribute to his father from his eldest son,burdened with the duties of honour and survival of the first house of the Raghuvanshies of Katehar,on the father’s birth anniversary,in 2009,to seek blessings and guidance,honesty of purpose and courage to carry-on regardless,aspiring and dreaming of the raj(as Dashrath-bo malhain would say) of Bharat baba,and yet facing the slings and arrows of the outrageous fortune and still facing the murderous streak of the elements that had done my father in,long long ago,as the fight in side the brotherhood of the Zamindari scions,continues unabated,just as described by the famous appointee of Lord Cornwallis,viz.Jonathan Duncan,the instrumentalist of the permanent settlement,upto Varanasi commissionerate,in1793,had described in his letters to the Board of Revenue at Calcutta and to the Governor General in Council.They are still going for the jugular,to retain old primacy,with the help of newly acquired wealth(buying the thana wholesale).
I hope to build “Jaipal Singh Hall of fame of the 1st House of the Raghuvanshies of Katehar”,before I too have my rendezvous with death,naturally or otherwise.In my considered opinion there was only one flaw in the exalted and short life of my father,viz. his early demise and I don’t want to follow suit,in that undoing,as there may not be another to complete my own and my late,lamented father’s mission.If Ram Rup Singh lived life akin to royalty,his younger brother was a nobility incarnate and I am , forever, proud of him and it is my honour to have been born as his son,and the eldest at that with the privilege of forever being in the mire,even for the good deeds done,off and on.I shall prod on ,nevertheless,thinking of my father.
His adoring son.
Suresh Pratap Singh
At Navi Mumbai
14th of August,2009.
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