The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.s2.124
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The foundation of Jaisalmer by Rāwal Jaisal, the Bhātī, has been mentioned. The Jādons, or Bhātīs, yet occupy their home in the desert. The Rāthors were gaining power in the land of Kher, the desert of the west, and the Jādons found them troublesome neighbours, rapacious and unscrupulous. Rāwal Chāchakdeo, grandson of Jaisal, who reigned from 1219 to 1241, made preparations to chastise them, but their leaders conciliated him by giving him a daughter to wife. Karan Singh I, who reigned from 1241 to 1271, espoused the cause of a Hindu living near Nāgaur, whose only daughter had been abducted by Muzaffar Khān, the Muslim ruler or governor of that district, and defeated and slew the Khān and three thousand of his men.