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Chedi—Bundelkhand and a part of the Central Provinces. It was bounded on west by the Kali-Sindh and on the east by the Tonso. It is the Cheti of the Budd Tod (Râjasthân, I, 43 note) identifies Chedi with Chanderi (Chandravatî or Sandravat the Greeks), a town in Bundelkhand, which is said to have been the capital of Śiśu who was killed by Kṛishṇa (see also JASB., Vols. XV and LXXI, p. 101). It miles west of Lalitpur: the ruins of old Chanderi, however, are 8 miles north-west c modern town (JASB., 1902, p. 108 note). Chanderi has been described in the Akbari as a very large ancient city containing a fort. According to Dr. Führer (M. A General Cunningham (Arch. S. Rep., IX, 106), and Dr. Bühler (Vikramâṅka-charita, 95), however, Dâhala Maṇḍala or Bundelkhand was the ancient Chedi, Dâhala being o Narbada. In the Skanda P., Revâ-khaṇḍa, ch. 56, Maṇḍala is said to be another 1 for Chedi. Maṇḍala is the Maṇḍalai of Ptolemy, a territory situated in that up region where the Sona and the Narmadâ have their sources (McCrindle’s Ptolemy, p. Kâlañjara was the capital of Chedi under the Gupta kings, and Suktimatî its capi the time of the Mahâbhârata. Chedi was also called Tripurî from its capital now c Tewar, six miles from Jabbalpur (Epigraphia Indica, Vol. I, pp. 220, 253, and Hemak Tewar (Teor) was the capital of Dahala (Alberuni’s India, Vol. I, p. 202 ). Anargharâghava (Act VII, 115), says that Mâhishmatî was the capital of Chedima at the time of the Kalachuris. See Suktimatî.