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We may be quite certain that the massive temple, on the site and 
with the materials of which the shrine of Pir Mobarik Shah is construct¬ 
ed, was not allowed to remain until the middle or end of the 15th century 
A. D. 
Assumiug then that the date 1309 S. = 1252 A. D. is correct, it is 
difficult to avoid identifying this Raja Kirat Pal with the Raja Kirat 
Singh of the sanad. The one reign may easily have embraced the dates 
1252 and 1280 A. D. As we shall see presently, Kirat Pal of Kalinjar, 
if he really flourished in the year 1280 A. D. cannot have been a Chandel 
prince, for the Chandel Raja in that year was Sandhira Varmma. 
In another paper I have already mentioned* that the local tradition 
of Mauza Bharwara, (which village is situated about 21 miles W. N. W. of 
Mahoha), ascribes the foundation of that village to Lodhis in the year 1300 
S. = 1243 A. D. during the reign of Raja Bhar of Mahoba. 
The neighbouring village of Bijaipur is likewise believed to have been 
founded by Lodhis during the time of the Bhar Raj. It was then seized 
for a time by the Chhindi or Chheri Bheri Thakurs (who are remembered 
in many villages in the neighbourhood, and are by some identified with the 
Bhars), and was recovered by the Lodhis under the leadership of Aman 
Bali in 1400 S. = 1343 A. D. 
The people of Bhateora Kalan, in the same part of the country, have 
a tradition that the original Lodhi inhabitants of their village were de¬ 
stroyed by the Chheri Bheri Thakurs, with the exception of one woman with 
child, who escaped. Her son Aman Bali on reaching man’s estate slew 
the Chheri Bheri Thakurs, while they were intoxicated at a festival, and 
cast their bodies into a well.f His son founded twelve and a half villages, 
including Bharwara and Bijaipur. The dates given in these traditions are 
evidently round numbers, and there can be no doubt that in reality the 
colonization of the twelve and a half villages must have occupied a consi¬ 
derable time. Tradition always foreshortens, so to speak, the picture of the 
past. The above quoted traditions may I think be regarded as harmoniz¬ 
ing with each other as closely as it is reasonable to expect. 
The Muhammadan historians afford another clue to the date of the 
Bhar chiefs of Kalinjar and Mahoba. 
Farishta (Briggs, 1,237) relates that: “ In the month of Shaban 645, 
Nasir-ud-din Mahmud proceeded with his troops through the country 
which lies between the rivers Ganges and Jumna, and after an obstinate 
siege, the fort of BitundaJ yielded to his arms. He then continued his 
* J. A. S. B., Part I, for 1877, page 5. 
f Similar traditions as to the destruction of Ahirs, Khangars and other tribes by 
Lodhi or Thakur invaders are not uncommon in Bundelkhand. 
J The reading of this name is doubtful. 
