Irij

Irij, also known as Erich, stands on the left bank of the Betwa River in Bundelkhand. The town is an old settlement whose mounds have yielded coins, inscriptions and sculpture from successive periods. Mosques and tombs overlook the river, preserving traces of its later history. Its position on the Betwa placed it among the settlements of a region that saw the rise of the Chandelas and, later, the Bundela rulers of Orchha.