Sambalpur Atharagarh - Bonai

Princely States

The rulers of Bonai claim to have come from Sakaldwip or Ceylon and the founder was abandoned by his mother under a Kadam tree. When the enemies were about to reach him, a peacock swallowed him and protected him till the danger is passed. This is given as the reason why the ruling. Later versions though, trace ancestry to the Kadamba line of Rathore Raj…