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and under his able direction, they succeeded in taking the place. All the 
infidel’s wives, dependants and children fell into the hands of the victors 
with much cattle, many horses and slaves. Indeed the spoil that was 
secured exceeded all computation. 
At the beginning of Shawwal 645 H. (Feb. 1248), the force returned 
to the royal camp with their booty.” # 
It would appear from this passage that Farishta is in error when he 
asserts that Dalaki-wa-Malaki resided at Kalinjar. His abode was between 
Kalinjar and Karra, and no Muhammadan army had ever penetrated to it, 
a description which by no means applied to Kalinjar, which had been visited 
both by Mahmud and Kutb-ud-din. The contemporary author further is 
careful to point out that the Eana Dalaki-wa-Malaki was distinct from the 
Eai of Kalinjar, who had no authority over him. 
At first sight no connection is perceptible between the Raja Dalaki- 
wa-Malaki and the Bhar chiefs of Kalinjar and Mahoba, but the argument 
developed in the following extract raises at the least a strong probability 
that they are identical. 
“ The Bhars up to a late period, occupied and owned considerable por¬ 
tions of Eta, Cawnpore, Fatehpur, and Allahabad.tradition points 
them out as the rulers of the middle and lower Doab at an early period. 
Mr. Benett in a notef on the Bhar kings of Eastern Oudh, quotes the 
local traditions regarding Bal and Dal, the great Bhar heroes of that 
province, whose names appear in the legends of 1000 to 1400 A. D. 
“Again the ancestors of the great Kanhpuriya clan of Rajputs, Sahas 
and Rahas, are said to have completed the conquest of the western half of 
the Partabgarh district in Oudh, by inflicting a decisive defeat on the 
Bhars, whose leaders Biloki and Tiloki were left dead on the battle field. 
“ The Bais also have a tradition that the founder of the house of Dun- 
dia Khera defeated the Bhar leaders Dal and Bal,J on the banks of the 
Ganges in the Rai Bareli district; and another tradition has it that the 
Bhars were destroyed by Ibrahim Shah Shark! [who reigned 1401-1440 
A. D.] at Dalamau on the Ganges, a place where Ahirs yearly congregate 
and offer up milk to the manes of Dal and Bal at their reputed tomb. 
“ Mr. Benett has elsewhere shown that the Kanhpuriya leaders, Sahas 
* Dowson’s Elliot, II, 366-7. 
In Nov. 1251 A. D. Ulugh Khan again marched “towards Malwa and Kalinjar.” 
Ibid. p. 368. 
f Indian Ant. I, 265. See also the same writer’s Report on the Chief Clans of 
Roy Bareilly, pp. 5, 17, 18. 
f The names are given as Tiloki and Biloki by Mr. Benett (Clans of Roy Bareilly, 
17) who says that the Bhar chiefs were left dead on the battle field, and that their 
names are preserved in the neighbouring villages of Tiloi and Biloi. 
