Bargarh

Bargarh lies beside the Jira River in the western Odisha plain. An eleventh-century inscription calls the place Baghar Kota; its later name is associated with the great fort said to have been built here by Balaram Deo, the Chauhan ruler of Sambalpur. He made Bargarh a headquarters for a time, and traces of the old walls remained near the river. Farther west lay Borasambar, another landed domain in the country governed by the Chauhan rulers.