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viii Chedi, o f which the capital was Tripuri, or Tripura, and the Raja was G&ngeo, or G&ngeya Deva. Abu Rih&n’s account refers to the year 1030-3JL A.D ., while the reign o f G&ngeya is fixed by the genealogical reckoning o f my chronology to the period between A.D. 1025 and 1050.

The second notice is in Dr. Bukler’s account of Bilhana, the author of the Vikram&nkadeva Charita.1 Bilhana was born at Khonamukha, in Kashmir, and left his native country between 1062 and 1065 A.D. lie visited Mathura, Kanauj, Fray&g, and Benares, and afterwards “ resided for some time at the court of the Chandcla Chief Kama in Ddhala, or Bundclkhand; and it was here, he tells us, that he gained his victory over the poet GangAhara.” Eventually he be­ came the court poet of the Ch&lukya K ing Vikram&ditya Tribhuvana Malla o f Kaly&na. As his life o f this king was written about A.D. 1085, the date o f his residence at the court of Raja Kama o f Dahala may be placed about A.D. 1070 to 1075, a period which agrees exactly with the approximate date of A.D. 1050 to 1075, which I had already assigned to him by the genealogical reckoning.

In this notice I have retained the statement that Kama was the Chandela Chief o f D&hala, or Bundelkhand,, for the purpose o f correcting the widely-spread mistake that Chedi was identical with Chandel. This error, I believe, originated with Lieutenant Price, the translator o f the Mau inscription o f the Chandel Rajas. After describing how Madana Varma Chandela had vanquished the K ing o f Chedi “ in the fierce fight,” he adds in a note, “ the same, I believe, with C h a tu la ilso that Madana Varma must have conquered himself.* Now Chandela is the tribal name o f the Rajas who ruled over the country o f Mahoba, Khajuraho, and K&lanjar, which is called Jajahuti by Abu Rihan, and Jejd1

See the VikrnmankndfTa Charita, edited by l>r. Bukler, Bombay. Antiquary. V, 317, 32*.

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 * Bwcarcbct of Atiatic Society o f Bengal, vol. xii, pan. 15, of hamnaUtion.