History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c35.s19.4

v3.c35.s19.4

If we take the date of the founding of Mandi as 1000 A. D. or even 1100 A. D. it is possible to explain that the kingdom was founded by Sena Rajputs during invasions of Mahomedans into the Panjab under Mahmud or later. The story that it was founded by Bāhusena, brother of Śāhusena with whom he disagreed is of the usual fashion wherein two brothers having names sounding like each other found two kingdoms and may be disbelieved. Suket is, however, an older kingdom and was founded about 800 A. D. (It is a strange revelation that while Kangra Katoch Rajputs marry with the Suket family they do not marry with the Mandi family though of the same clan, as the Maharaāja of Guler informed us).