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notes' were bonnd in large volumes in duplicate, one copy being preserved in the Collector's Office at Hamirpur and one in the Office of the Board of Revenue at Allahabad. During the Christmas Vacation of 1878 the author managed to visit Khajuraho, accompanied by the late Mr. F. O. Black; and from time to time be read a large part of the Mahôd Khand by the poet Chand.
The results of his local investigations and the study of all available printed matter on the subject have been utilized during thirty-two years in the following publications :
Publioations by the Author on Chandolla History, oto. I. and II. - Popular Songs of the Hamirpur District in Bundelkhand.-J. A. S. B.,
Part I, 1875, p. 889; 1876, p. 279. III. - Notes on the Bhars and other Early Inhabitants of Bundelkhand,' with a plate. -
Ibid., 1877, p. 227. IV. - Notes on Two Copperplate Inscriptions Found in the Hamirpur District, N.-W. P.,
with a Note by Prannath Pandit. - Ibid., 1878, p. 80. V. - Observations on Some Chandėl Antiquities,' with 6 Plates (F. C. Black, joint
author). Ibid., 1879, p. 285. VI. - A Chandel Inscription dated 1240 8.' - Proo. A. $. B., 1879, p. 143. VII. - 'A Brief Account of the Early History, Antiquities, Castes, and Traditions of the
Hamirpur District' (Government Press, Allahabad - reprint). - Chapter II of the
Report of the Settlement of the Hamirpur District, 1880. VIII. - Contributions to the History of Bundelkhand.'- J.A.S.B., Part I, 1881, pp. 1–53. IX. - Review of Cunningham's Archæological Survey Reports, Volume XXI. - Indian
Antiquury, September, 1886. X. Ancient Buddhist Statuettes and a Chandella Copperplate from the BandA District,'
with 5 Plates (W. Hoey, joint-author). - J.A.S.B., Part I, 1895, p. 155. XI. - Chandella Coinage' in "Numismatic Notes and Novelties." - Ibid., 1897, p. 306. XII. - The Chandellas of Jéjàkabhukti.' - Early History of India, 1904, pp. 812-316 ;
ibid., 2nd ed., 1908, pp. 360—4, 379. XIII. - The Medieval Dynasties of Central India.' - Catalogue of Coins in the Indian
Museum, Vol. I, 1906, pp. 250—253. The objeot of this essay is to review the considerable amount of material deseribed in the preceding pages, to eliminate the numerous errors more or less current, and to give an accurate presentation of the existing state of knowledge concerning the history and coinage of the Chandella dynasty.
It is hardly necessary to add that such an undertaking has been rendered possible only by the labours of Professor Kielhorn and his helpers, which supply the necessary epigraphic basis. That basis is conveniently exhibited in the annexed List of Chandolla Insoriptions, compiled from Kielhorn's List of the Inscriptions of Northern India' (Epigraphia India, Vol. V), the Supplement to the same, the Synchronistic Tables (ibid., Vol. VIII), and other souroes, as indicated in the references. Those references give only the best available editions of the inscriptions, no mention being niade of superreded editions. Unfortunately, several records, apparently of some importance, are very imperfectly known, good facsimiles not being available. Dates are expressed invariably in the Vikrams era.
The List of Inscriptions is followed by the genealogy and & chronologionl list of the members of the dynasty, as determined by the epigraphic and numismatic evidence. The names of princes recorded by tradition only will be found in the subsequent discussion and narrative.
