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At the dawn of the history, part of the district as now constituted appears to have been included in the tract of the country  known as 'Rarh' and part in the tract called 'Vajjabhumi '. The traditions of the Jainas state that Mahavira, their last great Tirthankara, wandered  through these two tracts in the 5th Century, B.C.; and the description of them would seem to show that the eastern part of the district , with its alluvial soil, well watered by rivers, formed part of Rarh, while the wilder and more rugged country to the west was aptly known as Vajjabhumi, i.e., the country of Thunderbolt.