The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s6.2

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The ancient name of the province between the Jumna and Narmadā, now known as Bundelkhand, and partly included in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, was Jejākabhukti.² The extensive region, farther to the south, which is now under the administration of the Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces, nearly corresponds with the old kingdom of Chedi. In the mediaeval history of these countries two dynasties—the Chandēls of Jejākabhukti and the Kalachuris of Chedi—which occasionally were connected by marriage, and constantly were in contact one with the other, whether as friends or enemies, are conspicuous. From the beginning of the eleventh century the Chedi country was divided into two kingdoms, Western Chedi, or Dāhāla, with its capital at Tripura, near Jabalpur, and Eastern Chedi, or Mahākosala, with its capital at Ratanpur.