1881.] V. A. Smith —History of Bundelkhand. 43 
Sandhira Varmma was probably immediately succeeded by Bhoja 
Varmma, but we know nothing of the names of the Chandel Rajas of 
Kalinjar between the time of Bhoja Varmma 1288 A. I). and that of Kirat 
Bai 1545 A. D., except that a person named Vira Varmma is mentioned in 
verse 22 of the much injured Kalinjar No. 2 inscription published by 
Maisayty and be may have been a Chandel Raja. This inscription appears 
to be undated, and I do not know why General Cunningham (Arch. Rep. II 
448, Table) gives 1372 Samvat = 1315 A. D as its date. 
Let us now return to the examination of the Maboba tradition. 
The Bhar Raja, according to the tradition, was destroyed by a Musal- 
man attack, led by a saint named Malik Hasn Shah, who bad been sent by 
the king of Arabia. The story about the appeal of the oppressed Muham¬ 
madans to the Arabian prince may of course be dismissed as pure myth, 
but the saint appears to have been a solid fact, for bis tomb and shrine 
exist to this day, and the guardians of the buildings say that they once 
possessed a quantity of ancient documents relating to the shrine and to 
Raja Bhar, which have now unfortunately all disappeared. 
I see no reason to doubt that the Bhar Raj at Maboba was actually 
destroyed by a Muhammadan attack, in which the holy saint Malik Hasn 
Shah was the leading spirit. 
The date of the Bhar chief’s rise to power in Bundelkhand has been 
fixed approximately in the year 1240 A. D., and, although the Bhars 
suffered a severe defeat near Karra in 1218, they do not seem to hare been 
finally crushed, and they probably retained a hold on Bundelkhand for 
many years. 
I am disposed to think that Malik Hasn Shah’s raid was connected 
with Ala-ud-din’s invasion of Malwa in the year 1293 A. D., respecting 
which Ferishta writes—“ In the year 692, the king [Jalal-ud-din] marched 
against the Hindus in the neighbourhood of Mando and, having devas¬ 
tated the country in that vicinity, returned to Dehli. In the meantime, 
Malik Ala-ud-din, the king’s nephew, governor of Karra, requested per¬ 
mission to attack the Hindus of Bhilsa, who infested his province. 
Having obtained leave, he marched in the same year to that place, which 
he subdued and, having pillaged the country, returned with much spoil, 
part of which was sent to the king.”f 
The direct road from Karra to Bhilsa, if it did not pass through 
Maboba, must certainty have passed near that place, and it is probable that 
Maboba was then included in the “ infested” province of Karra, as it 
certainty was during the reign of Firuz H'ughlak in the middle of the 
following century. 
* J. A. S. B. Vol. XVII, Part I, p. 319. 
f Cf. C. Briggs’ Ferishta, I, 303. 
