7. The cultus of Hardaul is further discussed _post_ in Chapter 31. In 1875, the editor, who was then employed in the Hamîrpur district of Bundêlkhand, published some popular Hindi songs in praise of the hero, with the following abstract of the _Legend of Hardaul_: 'Hardaul, a son of the famous Bîr Singh Deo Bundêla of Orchhâ, was born at Datiyâ. His brother, Jhajhâr Singh, suspected him of undue intimacy with his wife, and at a feast poisoned him with all his followers. After this tragedy, it happened that the daughter of Kunjâvatî, the sister of Jhajhâr and Hardaul, was about to be married. Kunjâvatî accordingly sent an invitation to Jhajhâr Singh, requesting him to attend the wedding. He refused, and mockingly replied that she had better invite her favourite brother Hardaul. Thereupon she went in despair to his tomb and lamented aloud. Hardaul from below answered her cries, and said that he would come to the wedding and make all arrangements. The ghost kept his promise, and arranged the nuptials as befitted the honour of his house. Subsequently, he visited at night the bedside of Akbar, and besought the emperor to command _chabûtras_ to be erected and honour paid to him in every village throughout the empire, promising that, if he were duly honoured, a wedding should never be marred by storm or rain, and that no one who first presented a share of his meal to Hardaul should ever want for food. Akbar complied with these requests, and since that time Hardaul's ghost has been worshipped in every village. He is chiefly honoured at weddings and in Baisâkh (April-May), during which month the women, especially those of the lower castes, visit his _chabûtra_ and eat there. His chabûtra is always built outside the village. On the day but one before the arrival of a wedding procession, the women of the family worship the gods and Hardaul, and invite them to the wedding. If any signs of a storm appears, Hardaul is propitiated with songs '(_J.A.S.B._, vol. xliv (1875), Part I, p. 389). The belief that Hardaul worship and cholera had been introduced at the same time prevailed in Hamîrpur, as elsewhere. The _chabûtra_ referred to in the above extract is a small platform built of mud or masonry. 8. The Hyphasis is the Greek name for the river Biâs in the Panjâb. Holkar's flight into the Panjâb occurred in 1805, and in the same year the long war with him was terminated by a treaty, much too favourable to the marauding chief. He became insane a few years later, and died in 1811. 9. See note 2,_ante_. 10. Narsinghpur and Kandelî are practically one town. The Government offices and houses of the European residents are in Kandelî, which is a mile east of Narsinghpur. The original name of Narsinghpur was Gadariâ Khêrâ. The modern name is due to the erection of a large temple to Narsingha, one of the forms of Vishnu. The district of Narsinghpur lies in the Nerbudda valley, west and south-west of Jubbulpore.