The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s6.4

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The Chandēls, like several other dynasties, first come into notice early in the ninth century, when Nannuka Chandēl, about A. D. 831, overthrew a Parihār chieftain, and became lord of the southern parts of Jejākabhukti. The Parihārs of Bundelkhand, like their brethren of Bhinmāl, must have belonged to the Gurjara or Gūjar group of tribes which had entered India in the sixth century. The Parihār capital had been at Mau-Sahaniya, between Nowgong (Naugāon) and Chhatarpur.¹ The predecessors of the Parihārs were Gaharwār Rājas, members of the clan which afterwards gave Kanauj the line of kings commonly miscalled Rāthōrs.