ChatrasAla, mahArAja of bundelakhaNDa, who rebelled against awrangzeb; father of mastAnI.
- “As youth he had journeyed to shivAjI to serve in his army. shivAjI asked Chatrasal to found his own enterprise against the Mogols modeled along the lines of the mArATha one and strike Awrangzeb in the North. Chatrasal did accordingly by taking Panna which was rich in diamond mines and initiating a great war of liberation in the North.”