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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JUNE, 1910.
GAZETTEER GLEANINGS IN CENTRAL INDIA.
BY CAPTAIN C. E. LUARD, 1. A., M.A. (Oxon). Superintendent of Gazetteer in Central India.
BUNDELI SONGS. 1.-Chhatarsal Bundela and Muhammad Khan Bangash. In 1729-30 the Emperor Mobammad Shah sent Mubammad Khan Bangash into Bundelkband. At first the Pathan was successful, but later Chhatarsāl called on the Peshwa to help him and Muhammad Bangash was defeatedat Jaitpur. To this the song refers. The dialect is Bundeli. Text.
Translation. Ayo ut Bangas it Bundela hai maläbir From this side came the Bangash, from tho Jure saph jang doi Angad' ke payale.
other the brave Dandelas ; firmly planting their feet, even as Angad did (at Ravana's
court), the two armies met in battle. Māre bhar nete paith dekhiye kaban lao ao (Many) mighty warriors were slain, How far Lekhiye kalan lao ran ghāyalpar ghāyalai.
must I stretch my vision to behold (their encounters). How can I describo how tho
wounded lay in heaps. Shankar bhulanao mahabharat bhayankar Even Shankar, so fierce was the fight, was bhayao
dismayed (and heard not) Kali shouting to Kali kahai erkai kapāli mālāgalai.
him. "Come and make a necklace of the
skulls." Yese ud mürao wa Dalelkon, Jagat juisen So swiftly flew Jagat and slew yon Dalol, just Chitao mrig jhundmen pachhāri karsiyale. as the leopard strikes down the blackest
deer in a herd. Baddal se dal aye Pathan ke Chappat jor On came the Pathān army like (thickly bhayao kshit nātī.
gathering clouds); but Champat's grandson Shronit ki saritä jo bahi phirai Joggin
(withstood them firm) as the earth. As the manjh barātin mātī.7
blood flowed in streams, the Joginis revelled in it, like drunken women at a marriage
feast. Baini kahi Mahabūbe kon dāb so khadgan Beni (the poet) cries" (See) how Jagat conkhel kari bahurāti
trolling (his steed) Mahabūd, wields liis Ropken pãop Chhatā ke putā Jagatā bani sword in endless different ways. Planting sel Dalel ki chhäti.
his foot (firmly), Jagat, son of Chhatars.il, drove his spear into the breast of Dalel."
1 Angad, son of the Monkey Bali, was sent as ambassador to Ravana's court, where he planted his foot so that none could move it.
? reţe, 1.e., net-dar. possessing vigor, determination,
• Dalel was leader under the Bangash. Jagat Rai was the son of Chhatarsal of Panna and, by the division of territory made by that chief, received Jaitpur (now in the Hamirpur District of the United Provinces).
• karaayalo, 6.., "of black body." A leopard is supposed to choose darkcoloured deer always. • Champat Rai, father of Chhatarsal Bundela.
Jagat Rai was Champat's grandson, + Matia=Matwāri.
• Jagat's horse.
