20 Y. A. Smith —History of Bundellcliand. [No. 1, 
There is no reason I think to doubt Sir Wm. Sleeman’s assertion that 
in his time an inscription existed at Kondalpur, in which the name of 
the Chandel Raja was read as ‘ Mulun Deo’ and the date as Samvat 815. 
There was no Raja named Malan Deo, and it is an obvious correction 
to read Madana Deva, and it is equally obvious that the date 815, if 
correctly read, should not be referred to the Vikrama era, for there were 
no Chandel Rajas in 758 A. D. 
Dates have often been misread, and I think it most likely that in 
this case the first figure was wrongly read, and that the real date was 915 
of the Chedi Samvat = A. D. 1164, which year would fall within, but at the 
close, of Madana Varmma’s reign. 
Sir Wm. Sleeman’s statement that Bilhari was included in the Chandel 
dominions is fully borne out by the following statement, which appears to 
be based on independently obtained information :— 
£< A local governor appointed by the Chandels of Mahoba was station¬ 
ed at Bilhari in Jabalpur, to whom the territory, now comprised in the 
Sagor and Damoh districts was subordinate. 
The fact of a temporary Chandel occupation of Bilhari is not in¬ 
consistent with the existence of a Kulachuri inscription, dated 909 K. S. = 
1158 A. D., at Bharhut far north of Jabalpur,f for I think it probable 
that the Chandel attack did not take place till about 1160, the Kondalpur 
inscription having been set up by Madana Varmma, according to my theory, 
in 1164. 
But even if the Chandel success was gained at an earlier date, the 
Kulachuri chief at Bharhut may well have retained local power in subor¬ 
dination to the conqueror. 
The conquest of one native state by another does not necessarily imply 
the extinction of the dynasty of the defeated chieftain. 
On a review of all the evidence I believe that late in the reign of 
Madana Varmma the Chandel dominions included Bilhari, which was 
administered by a local governor, who was most probably a scion of the 
Chandel house, known as Raja Bela or Belo. 
(XVL) Daramardi Deva (Parmal or Darmar). 
Date circa 1165 to 1202 A. D. 
This prince is commonly, though inaccurately, spoken of as the last 
of his dynasty ; his defeat by Raja Pirthiraj of Delhi having impressed 
itself on the popular memory. 
He appears to have been the son of Madana Varmma, and was cer¬ 
tainly his immediate successor, but it is curious that none of the published 
* Central Provinces Gazetteer, 2nd edition, p. 176. 
t Arch. Report, IX, 94. 
