History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c48.10
History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c48.10
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Motte found that the chiefs of Sambalpur claimed descent from a man who had come from Sambhar, the ancient Sakambhari, the first capital of the Chahmanas before they migrated to Delhi. He does not say whether the originator of the Patna-Sambalpur-Sonpur family was a Chauhan or a Parihar or a Kachhwaha. We reach the next stage in this maze of genealogy in the *Gazetteer of the Central Provinces of India*, by Charles Grant, Nagpur, 1870 (Second Edition).