 Aditya Narayan Singh would reign for only seven and a half years before dying in 1939, aged 64.Having had no children, Maharaja Aditya Narayan had adopted a distant cousin to succeed him.Maharaja Vibhuti Narayan Singh, as he was to be known was born on 5 November 1927, the great-nephew of the second wife of Maharaja Sir Prabhu Narayan Singh.