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in descent from Rudra Partap of Orchha, # and, according to two genealogies 
eight generations intervened between Sahanpal and Rudra Partap, Sahanpal 
being named in some traditions as the destroyer of the Khangars, in lieu 
of Arjun Pal.f We thus find either 15 or 16 generations from the death of 
Chhatarsal to the accession of Sahanpal, and, if a generation be taken as 
averaging either 20 or 25 years, the following limiting dates are obtained :—• 
15 x 20 = 300. 
15 x 25 = 375. 
16 x 20 = 320. 
16 x 25 = 400. 
A. D. 
(1731 — 300) = 1431. 
(1731 — 375) = 1356. 
(1731 — 320) = 1411. 
(1731 — 400) = 1331. 
The required date is thus fixed as lying between 1331 and 1431, and 
most probably lies between 1330 and 1340, a result which well accords with 
the Mahoba tradition. 
I therefore conclude that Mahoba was governed, as a dependency, by the 
Ivhangars of Garh Kurar, subject to the lordship of the emperor of Delhi, 
from about 1300 to about 1340 A. D. 
It is not known whether the early Bundela (Gaharwar) successors of 
Sahanpal exercised any authority over Mahoba or not, but it is probable 
that they did not, for, in or about 1337 A. D., Mahoba, with Karra and 
Dalamau, was in charge of Malik-us-Shark Mardan Daulat, who received 
the title of Nasir-ul-Mulk. 
The process by which Gaharwars became Bundelas is not clearly known, 
and in the genealogies the new clan name is accounted for by foolish 
myths. 
The Bundelas are admitted to be of impure Rajput descent, and I 
think it most probable that they are the offspring of a marriage between 
the daughter of the Khangar Raja of Garb Kurar and the Gaharwar 
adventurer who supplanted him. 
The fact of such a marriage seems to be indicated by the story given 
in the Hadikatu-l-Akalim,£ and in the variant of that story which I heard 
from Munshi Gya Din Tahsildar, a member of a Kamingo family long 
settled in Bundelkhand. 
* According to the Gazetteer s. v. Orchha, that town was founded hy Rudra 
Partap or his son in 1531 A. D. One of my genealogies gives the date as 1511 A. D., 
and the same M. S. dates the expulsion of the Khangars hy Sahanpal in 1313 S. = 
1265 A. D., which date is too early. In Chhatarsals pedigree some genealogies insert 
the name of Kulnandan between Bhagwant and Champat Rai, and some omit it. 
f One genealogy makes Sahanpal to he the son of Arjun Pal, another states that 
they were brothers, the former ruling at Kurar, and the latter at Mahaum. 
f Quoted in Beames’ Elliot, I, 45. 
