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Y. A.. Smith — History of Bimdellchand. 
[No. 1, 
APPENDIX. 
The following extracts from the Cawnpore Settlement Report bearing 
on the later history of the Chandels, and on their connection with the 
Gaharwars of Kanauj came to my notice while these sheets were passing 
through the press. 1 am not aware of the existence of any other record 
of a Chandel principality with its capital at Kanauj. 
1. The most important tribe in this district is that of the Chandels. 
I was fortunate enough to obtain two family histories ( Bansawalis )—one, 
in Persian, belonging to the now extinct branch of Shiurajpur, the other, 
in Hindi, to the branch that, settling in Sachendi, covered the south of 
pargana Jajmau. The former was compiled before the mutiny from do¬ 
cuments in his possession by order of the last Raja, Sati Parshad, who, 
possibly conceiving he owed but little loyalty to a Government that had 
stripped him of his large estates, was induced to become a rebel, and though 
he escaped execution was thrown into prison, and after release died an 
absolute pauper in the house of Chaube Sidhari Lai, a rising landowner, 
to whom I am indebted for the loan of the history. The Hindi copy is 
the compilation of the family bards, and is full of mythical and exaggerated 
details, but is of value as corroborating the more precise record of the 
Persian document. 
2. It would be foreign to the purpose of this report to relate the 
earlier history of the Chandels, which, as far as ascertained from these 
records, was printed in the “ Indian Antiquary,” February, 1873. I will 
take up the tale from the migration to Kanauj from Mahoba. On this 
the Persian manuscript says—“ At the time of the Raja of Kanauj, a 
Gahrwar, who till this time was rich and prosperous, first from the blows 
received at the hands of Rai Pithaura, and afterwards from the pressure of 
Shahab-ud-din Ghori, left his home and established himself in Benares. 
Then Sabhajit by advice of his Wazirs settled in Kanauj.” Finding 
the reputedly rich and wealthy Kanauj open to them, they probably left 
the sterile Bundelkhund for the fertile Duab. The year of the migration 
is given by the Persian manuscripts as sarnbat 1223, by the Hindi one as 
1180—a trifling discrepancy. 
