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V. A. Smith —History of BundeVkliand. 
[No. 1, 
The legend about Ajaipal and Bhar is very curious, and has some solid 
foundation, for there is sufficient independent evidence (as will presently 
be shown) to prove beyond doubt that a Bhar Raj did at one time exist at 
Mahoba. 
The statement that Ajaipal and Bhar conquered all Hindustan must 
of course be regarded as a gross exaggeration, but even this statement is 
not altogether baseless. 
I shall now proceed to examine in some detail the evidence which 
proves the former existence of Bhar chiefs at Mahoba and in the neighbour¬ 
hood of, or at, Kalinjar. 
The Kanungo family of Mahoba possess a copy of a sanad , which copy 
is attested by the signature of the Assistant Superintendent of Jalaun 
under date 17th December 1850. 
The document from which the copy was taken, was, it is said, on paper 
and was lodged in court soon after the annexation of the Mahoba pargana 
in 1840, and was no doubt, along with the rest of the records, destroyed in 
the mutiny. 
The language of the existing copy is modern Hindi, and for this rea¬ 
son, and also because the document destroyed in the mutiny was written 
on paper, it is certain that that document was not in itself an original, for 
a sanad dated 1337 Samvat would have been written on copper, and would 
almost certainly have been in the Sanskrit language. I see, however, no 
reason to suppose that the existing copy represents a forgery ; I believe 
that it is a copy of a translation of a genuine grant, the original of which 
was lost long ago. 
The document is to the following effect;—“ On behalf of Sri Maharaj 
Adhiraj, Sri Maharaja Sri Raja Kirat Singh Ju Bhar the grant is made 
for subsistence to Sri Kanungo Chaudhri Madho Ram, Mansabdar, Fauj- 
dar who exercises the functions ; he is granted the villages Tika Mau and 
Bijanagar and Kaproera, # and 2 per cent, and a present of Rs. 2 for each 
village, and 9 dams for each village at the chabutra , and in the city the 
customary dues, and in the town 350 bighas ; let no one interfere, and let 
them be loyal. 
Monday 9 Magh Sudi, 
Samvat 1337, 
At Kalpi.” 
* These villages are all within a few miles of Mahoba, but the third is now in 
Native Territory. 
