870 Account of Pergunnah Mahoba, Zlllah Humeerpore. [No. 4*> 



King Pug. 



The inhabitants talk a great deal of a King Rug, of whom all 

 they know is, that he reigned in the days to which their earliest 

 traditions refer ; of him, however, I find no authentic history, so 

 proceed at once to the Chandels, who, according to Major Ellis, are 

 descendants of Chandra Brahma, (perhaps the same as Chandrama 

 the " Moon,") whose mother, Hemavati, erected as penitential mo- 

 numents the temples at Kujraha in Chutturpore, about Sumbut 

 682. Twenty-one of his descendants followed consecutively, and were 

 the founders of most of the great buildings in Bundelcuud, and have 

 perpetuated their names by the lakes and reservoirs built by and 

 called after them. 



Pamal Deva, the 22ud in descent from the founder, and the 

 last of any note, gravely insulted the Chouhan King of Delhi, 

 Prethee Raj, and was slain by him in battle at Bairagarh, near Orai, 

 about Sumbut 1247. His son Brimaditya met also with defeat and 

 loss from the same monarch ; the Chandels left their ancestral 

 lands, and emigrated to Mirzapore, Azimgurh and elsewhere to the 

 East. 



The Banafers. 



The Banafers also, whose origin Elliot refers to Mahoba, acquired 

 great celebrity at the time, from the valor of Ala and Oodul, 'in the 

 contests with the Delhi army. Many are still to be found in the 

 Pergunnah and in the neighbouring one of Punwaree. 



The Choulians. 



After the final defeat of Brimaditya, Chouhan garrisons occupied 

 the country, but on the Muhammadan invasion of India, by Mah- 

 mood of G-huzni, and the fall of Delhi, Mahoba, with other Hindu 

 States, became also tributary to the conquering power. 

 Muhammadan Pule. 



From this time to that of the Boondelas, little is known of the 

 state of this part of the Empire. Its greatness had departed, and 

 it had sunk into a dependant province. Legends, however, are not 

 wanting among the people, of the presence of their monarchs in 

 person among them, especially of the powerful Ala Eddin Ghori. 



The Boondelas. 



The glory, however, of Bundelcund, as it now came to be termed, 



