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F. S. Growso —The tmrv of Bulandshahr. 
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Dor, tlie name of an almost extinct Rajput tribe, who once were very 
notable people in these parts, though a Sanskrit scholar in Bengal may 
well he pardoned for not remembering them. They claim to be a branch 
of the great Pramar clan, which in ancient times was the most powerful 
of all the Rajput tribes ; “ The world is the Pramar’s ” being quoted by 
Col. Tod as a proverbial saying to illustrate their extensive sway. They 
represent their ancestor to have been a Pramar Raja of Mainpuri, who 
cut off his own head for a sacrifice to the divinity ; whence his descend¬ 
ants were styled Dund, ‘the headless’, afterwards corrupted into Dor. 
But this is obviously a mere etymological fable. Chand in the Prithiraj- 
Ra sa celebrates a Dor chief of Kasondi, a locality which cannot now be 
identified with certainty, though probably it was a place that still bears 
the same name near Ajmir. The Dors are also mentioned in a Sanskrit 
inscription of the time of Prithiraj, which was found by Colonel Skinner 
at Hansi. This forms the basis for a rhapsody by Col. Tod in his usual 
enthusiastic vein, which is published in Vol. I of the Transactions of the 
Royal Asiatic Society. In the body of the article the tablet is described as 
commemorating a victory obtained over the Dors ; but what purports to be 
a more or less literal summary of the inscription is given at the end of 
the narrative, and all that can be gathered from this is, that in the course 
of the concluding stanzas the Dors are mentioned, but in what character, 
whether as foes or allies, does not appear. The summary unfortunately 
is most inadequate ; but the main object of the inscription would seem 
to have been to record the date not of any victory, but of the extension of a 
fort at Asi, which presumably was the older name of Hansi. This work is 
6aid to have been executed by a General named Hammira in conjunction with 
the Gahlot chief Kilhana, who is described—in Tod’s translation—as Prithi- 
raj’s maternal uncle. But here lies a difficulty ; for Prithiraj’s mother 
was Kamala-Devi, one of the daughters of King Anangpal, who was a 
Tomar not a Gahlot, and who had no male issue. The date of this Hansi 
inscription is Sambat 1224 (1168 A. D.). It was found in 1818 and 
presented to Lord Hastings; but in 1824, the date of Tod’s article, it was 
not known what had become of it. In fact, a singular fatality seems to 
attend all the records of this ancient Hindu clan—once so considerable, 
now virtually extinct—for I find, on enquiry in Calcutta, that the Manpur 
inscription also has disappeared and cannot be traced. 
This grant enumerates fourteen successive Rajas, beginning with 
Chandraka, the founder of the particular family. The seventh in descent 
was Haradatta, who was succeeded first by his brother, secondly by a nephew, 
and only in the third place by his son, who was subsequently deposed by 
a Brahman minister, who both secured the throne for himself and be¬ 
queathed it to his son. The parentage of the thirteenth Raja is not 
