possessed great military progress. Their territories extended from Vidisha to gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, and from Varanasi to Ujjain in central India.
The early history of the Chandelles is sorouded in obscutiful. According to one legend, Hemavati, the daughter of the Maraj (a Brahmin priest) family priest to the Gaharwar Ruler, lnderjit, was the ancestress of the Chandellas. Dazzlingly lovely and highly accomplished in manner and disposition, this girl had somefow married the curse of Indra and had been widow at an early age. But as she grow up, the bud bloomed in to a beautiful blossom and at sixteen, she looked a most splendid nymph. One summer night, feeling restless and faught with strange desire, she wondered out to a lotus filled pond, called Rati Talab, and bathing there in she sought coolth and refreshments. While she lay maked and relaxed in the sparkling water. The sky rolling moon God, saw the beautiful widow gave her self to the moon God who unable to resist her dazzling beauty came down on the earth and drawing upto the that lovely mortal embolic throughout the night. She was not averse to his bold advances, but when the day began to break and the god prepared to depart. She threatened him with curses, the moon god said "Curse me not, 0 Maiden, Rather, be happy that your if springs will beaking he will be a mighty ruler enjoying the whole world and from him will spread out thousand branches.
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