In the states governed by chiefs of the military classes, nearly the whole produce of the land goes to maintain soldiers, or military retainers, who are always ready to fight or rob for their chief. In those governed by the Brahmanical class, nearly the whole produce goes to maintain priests; and the other chiefs would soon devour them, as the black ants devour the white, were not the paramount power to interpose and save them. While the Peshwâ lived, he interposed; but all his dominions were _running into priesthood_, like those in Sâgar and Bundêlkhand, and must soon have been swallowed up by the military chiefs around him, had we not taken his place. Jâlaun and Jhânsî are preserved only by us, for, with all their religious, it is impossible for them to maintain efficient military establishments; and the Bundêla chiefs have always a strong desire to eat them up, since these states were all sliced out of their principalities when the Peshwâ was all-powerful in Hindustan. The Chhatarpur Râjâ is a Pawâr. His father had been in the service of the Bundêla Râjâ; but, when we entered upon our duties as the paramount power in Bundêlkhand, the son had succeeded to the little principality seized upon by his father; and, on the principle of respecting actual possession, he was recognized by us as the sovereign.[40] The Bundela Râjâs, east of the Dasân river, are descended from Râjâ Chhatarsâl, and are looked down upon by the Bundêla Râjâs of Orchhâ, Chandêrî, and Datiyâ, west of the Dasân, as Chhatarsâl was in the service of one of their ancestors, from whom he wrested the estates which his descendants now enjoy. Chhatarsâl, in his will, gave one-third of the dominion he had thus acquired to the strongest power then in India, the Peshwâ, in order to secure the other two-thirds to his two sons Hardî Sâ and Jagatrâj, in the same manner as princes of the Roman empire used to bequeath a portion of theirs to the emperor.[41] Of the Peshwâ's share we have now got all, except Jâlaun. Jhânsî was subsequently acquired by the Peshwâ, or rather by his subordinates, with his sanction and assistance.[42] Notes: 1. December, 1835. 2. In the Orchhâ State. This seems to be the same town which the author had already visited on his way to Tehrî on the 7th December. _Ante_, Chapter 19 note [15]. 3. _Ante_, Chapter 12 following note [9]. 4. Sodora in the author's text; see _ante_, Chapter 19, note 11. 5. 'Bow-sacrifice.'