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Y. A. Smith— History of Bundelkhand. 
In the absence of the original it is impossible to pronounce with cer¬ 
tainty on the authenticity of this grant, but there is at least no doubt as 
to the genuineness of the copy now in the Kanungo’s possession, and the 
family still hold revenue free part of the * 350 bighas in the town,’ and 
they say that under the various native rulers they enjoyed the transit and 
other dues referred to in the grant. 
The note ‘ at Kalpi’ is explained by the consideration that Kalpi and 
Mohaba were generally included in a single district. In Kutb-ud-din’s time 
Mahoba was “ the capital of the principality of Kalpi.” 
If then this Kanungo’s sanad be authentic, one date (viz., 1337 S. = 
1280 A. D.) in the period of the Bhar rule at Mahoba is fixed decisively, 
and we also learn that the Bhar dominions included Kalpi. 
These dominions, as we shall see, also included Kalinjar, and I am 
disposed to identify the Kirat Ju Bhar of the Kanungo’s sanad with the 
Raja Kirat Pal of Kalinjar who is mentioned in a Mahoba tradition obtain¬ 
ed from a different source. 
This tradition is recorded in a long undated Persian manuscript be¬ 
longing to the guardian of the shrine of Pir Mobarik Shah at Mahoba, 
which gives an account of the foundation of that shrine in the year 1309 
Samvat, in which year it is related that Raja Kirat Pal of Kalinjar visited 
the shrine and endowed it with 700 bighas of land revenue free. This 
land is still held revenue free by the guardian of the shrine. # 
The historical value of this tradition is much impaired by the fact that 
the manuscript gives four inconsistent notes of time. 
It records that (a) the shrine was founded by Pir Mobarik Shah, a 
disciple -of Raju who was a disciple of Jahana Jahangasht ; (/?) in the 
Samvat year 1309 ; (y) during the reign of Sultan Ibrahim Shark!; and, 
further, (3) that, after the time of Raja Kirat Pal of Kalinjar, the shrine 
was visited by Tughlak Shah and Prince Darya Khan and others. 
Now, (a) Raju son of Sayyad Jalal Makhduin Jahaniya, erected his 
father’s tomb at Kanauj in A. H. 881 = A. D. 1476f ; (/ 3) Samvat 1309 
= A. D. 1252 ; (y) Sultan Ibrahim Shaki reigned 1401-1440 A. D. and 
(3) the date of Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlak’s mosque at Mahoba is A. D. 1322, 
and Darya Khan was killed in A. D. 1387. 
Supposing there to be any truth in the narrative at all, I accept the 
date 1252 A. D. as being in itself much more probable than any one of the 
other inconsistent dates which might be assumed by calculation from the 
data given above. 
* The exact area as recently surveyed is 637 bighas, 14 biswas. Fuller details of 
the Mobarik Shah legend will be found in the Hamirpur Settlement Report, Allahabad, 
1880, p. 29. 
f Cunningham, Arch. Report, I, 289. 
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