Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c17.s5.t2.201

v1.c17.s5.t2.201

Their wars with Prithwiraja, forming one of the most interesting of his exploits, ended in the humiliation of the Chandela, and prepared the way for their conquest by the Gaharwars; the date of the supremacy of the Bundela Manvira was about A.D. 1200. Madhukar Sah, the thirteenth in descent from him, founded Orchha on the Betwa, by whose son, Birsingh Deva, considerable power was attained. Orchha became the chief of the numerous Bundela principalities; but its founder drew upon himself everlasting infamy, by putting to death the wise Abu-l Fazl,¹ the historian and friend of the magnanimous Akbar, and the encomiast and advocate of the Hindu race.