Simroungarh

King Nanyadev was extremely worried about the security of his kingdom. To save his land and people from the ceaseless attacks of enemies, he wished to build a strong and impregnable fortress.

But because the royal treasury was weak due to long wars, he had not been able to build the vast fort he desired. At that very time an artisan demon from Lanka used to come at night to meet the queen's maid-servant.

When the maid-servant learned of the demon's supernatural art of building, she told him the king's wish. At the request of his beloved, the demon promised to build the entire fortress in a single night. But he set one strict condition — "Let no person of the city go out of the house all night, and let there be no sound. If anyone sees or hears, the work will stop right there."

The king issued a proclamation throughout the city and had everyone stay inside their homes. When night fell, a vast host of demons began at swift speed to build the fortress, walls and moats.

But toward dawn, a new-born infant suddenly died in someone's house, and the mother's loud wailing broke out. Hearing the sound of the people, the demons thought that dawn was breaking, abandoned their work unfinished and fled.

That vast fortress, built in a single night but left incomplete, came later to be called "Simroungarh."