Matoonda

Villages around Bundi

Matoonda is a village in tahsil and district Bundi in Rajasthan.

Location

Located about 10 km east of Bundi town.

History

James Tod writes that Rao Bando Hara, ruler of Bundi, has left a deathless name in Rajwarra for his boundless (Parities, more especially during the famine which desolated that country in S. 1542 (A. D. 1486). Rao Bando collected grain from every surrounding state One year passed and another had almost followed, when the periodical rains ceased, and a famine ensued which ravaged all India, Princes far and near sent for aid to Boondi, while his own poor had daily portions served out gratis : which practice is still kept up in memory of Rao Bando, by the name of Lungur-ca-googari, or 'anchor of Bando'.

Bando's two brothers Samarsi & Umarsi adopt muslim faith: But the piety and charity of Rao Bando could not shield him from adversity. His two youngest brothers, urged by the temptation of power, abandoned their faith, and with the aid of the royal power expelled him from Boondi, where, under their new titles of Samarcandi and Umurcandi, they jointly ruled eleven years.

Bando retired to Matoonda, in the hills, where he died after a reign of twenty-one years, and where his cenotaph still remains. He left two sons, Ist, Narayndas, and 2d, Nir-Boodh, who had Matoonda.

Monument

• Cenotaph of Rao Bando Hara

References

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