1878.] W. Irvine —The Banff ash ISTawabs of FarruJchahdd. 3G5 
The Bamtelas are not found outside pargana Pahara, and there they 
are usually divided into the Eight villages and the Fifty-two villages. In 
the former, which lie west of the city, they are still prominent, especially 
in Baraun. In nearly every one of the eight villages they still hold the 
zamindari. Some of them are Musalmans. In only thirteen of the fifty- 
two villages can any trace of them be found, many of the villages have 
been absorbed into the City, and in the others their position is insignificant. 
Note C. 
TRADITIONS OF DALEL KHAN IN BUNDELKHAND. 
I am indebted to the kindness of Alan Cadell, Esq., C. S., Settlement 
Officer of Banda, for a memorandum on Dalel Khan by Pandit Mathura 
Parshad, Settlement Munsarim, founded on oral traditions derived from 
an old man Rup Brahman, and other inhabitants of pargana Maudha. Dalel 
Khan is called the son of Muhammad Khan Bangash. He was given, they 
say, by his father to Rajah Chattarsal who adopted him, and when he grew 
up endowed him with the pargana of Sondha (or Sihonda). Dalel Khan 
appointed his nephew, Murad Khan, to be thanadar of Sihonda. After a 
time Harde Sah, son of Chattarsal, angered Dalel Khan by some deceit he 
practised, and Dalel Khan prepared for war. The Hindu Rajahs were also 
afraid that Dalel Khan would in time oust them, for Chattarsal had nursed 
him to be like a snake in their sleeves. They therefore entered into a 
league to destroy him, binding themselves by an oath, according to the 
Shastras, or Ganges water, holding a sword in one hand. Then all the 
Rajahs marched from Panna, Datiya, and Chirkhari, and assembled at Ban¬ 
da. Dalel Khan was told that twenty-two Rajahs and thirty chiefs had 
come with intent to kill him. 
Dalel Khan marched from Sihonda and on his way hunted in the for¬ 
est of Mungas, 14 miles N. E. of Banda. Thence he went by way of 
Pipronda, about 7 miles west of Mungas, to Alona about six miles north¬ 
west of Pipronda, where he encamped on the hanks of the river Ken. 
The Bundelas advanced to Maudha, about thirteen miles west of 
Alona, to Makaranw, Achrela, Bharela, Tandohi, Ingotha, Pipronda, all 
villages three or four miles to the north-west of Maudha. Jagat Raj’s 
camp was in Makaranw, while Kirat Raj went to a distance, to the village 
of Pothya Buzarg on the Betwa, about sixteen miles north of Maudha in 
pargana Sumerpur, Hamirpur district. When Kirat Raj left his camp 
followers behind, the village which sprung up was named Kiratpur. 
One day while out hunting Dalel Khan went from Alona to Bhulsi, 
two or three miles off, across the Ken, and thence to Padhori seven miles 
further on and only four miles east of Maudha. The Musalmans of Mau¬ 
dha remonstrated with him on his rashness, and advised him to take shelter 
