38 Y. A. Smith —History of Bundelkhand. [No. 1, 
Bhars, so far as traced, has certainly been from west to east, and it may 
well be that the unknown origin of the tribe is to be sought in the hills 
and forests of Central India. 
The Bhar chief having attained so great a power in 1247-48 A. I)., it 
is evident that such power cannot have been gained in a day, and we may 
safely say that 1240 A. D. is the latest date that can be assigned for the 
rise of the Bhar rule in Bundelkhand. The Chandel power was shattered, 
first by Prithiraj in 1182 A. D. and again, and more completely, twenty 
years later by Kutb-ud-din in 1202 F.; the dynasty that had so long ruled 
over Chedi or Dahal along the banks of the Narbada seems to have died 
out in the latter part of the twelfth century, and the Parihar kingdom of 
Gwaliar was overthrown by Altamsh in 1282 A. D. The country therefore 
was open to an attack, and I would place the incursion of the Bhars at a 
date not earlier than 1230 nor later than 1240. 
The actual attack on Bundelkhand may have been, and probably was, 
directed from stations in the Doab or Oudh, but, even admitting this, it 
may still be true that the Bhars came originally from Central India, and 
even that their great chief Dalaki-wa-Malaki came from that direction. 
However, I am not aware of any mention of the existence of Bhars to the 
south of the present Hamirpur District and of the line of the Kaimur hills 
further to the east. 
To return to our Mahoba Kanungo’s tradition. Supposing that it 
correctly recites the order of events (excepting the episode of Manmath 
Gaharwar), then the rule of Taur Suba, that of the Mewatis, and that of 
the Gonds, must all be comprised between the years 1202 A. D., the date 
of Kutb-ud-din’s attack, and the year 1240, the latest possible date for the 
Bhar inroad. 
The compiler of the Gazetteer ( loo . cit.) attempts another identifica¬ 
tion of Dalaki-wa-Malaki which requires some discussion. 
A long inscription dated 1345 Samvat = 1288 A. D. and relating to 
a statue of Hari set up by one Nana in a place called Jayadurga is pre¬ 
served in the museum of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta. 
This inscription,in the North-West Provinces Gazetteer (I, pp. 16 and 
453,) is said to have been ‘ found in the fort of Ajaigarh,’ but it is nob really 
certain where it was found. Jas. Prinsep “ conjectures that it is one of 
those presented by General Stewart from Ajaigarh.or Kalin jar,”* 
and it is as likely to have come from one place as the other, if it came from 
either, for the two fortresses are only about 16 miles apart. 
* J. A. S. B. VI. 881. In the translation the name of the town is given as 
Jayanagore, hut in the Sanskrit transcript it is Jayadurga, I shall call it the ‘Jaya¬ 
durga inscription.’ 
