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V. A. Smith —History of Bundelkhnnd. 
In all probability the existing Lalaji temple at Khajuraho was the 
shrine of the great “ emerald lingam” referred to in the inscription. 
The erection of this costly and elaborate temple is another proof of 
Dhanga’s wealth and power. 
Dhanga cannot have been a sectarian bigot, for his Chaturbhuj inscrip¬ 
tion is Vaishnava, and his Lalaji inscription is Saiva. 
This prince died at the sacred confluence of the Ganges and Jumna at 
Prayag (Allahabad) aged “ upwards of one hundred autumns” in the year 
999 A. D. 
Dr. Rajendralal Mitra has pointed out that the common interpreta¬ 
tion of the passage in the Lalaji inscription describing Dhanga’s death, 
which assumes that he committed suicide, is incorrect, and that “ the ordi¬ 
nary civil way of announcing a death is to say, so-and-so has surrendered 
his life to the holy river so-and-so, or the sacred pool ( Jcshetra ) so-and-so, 
and the inscription has probably adopted the same mode of expression.”* 
It is to be observed that the grant recorded in the Nunaura No. II 
inscription was made at Kasi by Dhanga in the autumn of 999 A. D., but 
it is of course possible that he may merely have gone there on a pilgrimage, 
and that Benares was never included in his dominions. 
The inscriptions show that Dhanga must have succeeded his father 
Yaso Varnima in or about the year 950 A. D. 
(VIII.) Ganda. (Date 999 A. D. to circa 1025.) 
This prince is not mentioned in any extant inscription except the Mail- 
Clihatarpur one, but must have been named in the missing Mahoba inscrip¬ 
tion before referred to. 
If he was Dhanga’s son he must have been well advanced in years 
on his succession in 999. 
Ganda must have been the Baja of Kalinjar who assisted Baja Jaipal 
of Lahore against Mahmud of Ghazni in 1008 A. D. and he must likewise 
be identified with the Nanda Bai, Baja of Kalinjar, who according to 
Farishta, conquered Kanauj and killed its ruler in 1021 A. D. and who was, 
in punishment for his audacity, attacked by Mahmud, to whom lie surren¬ 
dered Kalinjar with 14 other forts in 1023 A. D. 
It is unfortunate that the names of these forts have not been preserv¬ 
ed, for the extent of the Chandel dominions at any given time is very 
imperfectly known. 
The dates given above limit closely the possible duration of Ganda’s 
reign, for we know that it began in 999 A. D. and that two reigns inter¬ 
vened between its close and the accession of Deva Varmma Deva (alias 
Kirtti Varmma I) who was reigning in 1050 A. D. 
* J. A. S. Bengal Vol. XLVII, Part I, page 74. 
