The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.s2.136

v3.c29.s2.136

The Kachhwāhas of Amber and Jaipur claim descent from the ancient rajas of Gwalior, of that tribe. Tej Karan, known as Dulha Rāī, or the Bridegroom Prince, who was eighth in descent from Vajradāman, the first Kachhwāha prince of Gwalior, left that city, for some undetermined reason, in charge of his sister’s son, a Parihār, who usurped his throne. Tej Karan married the daughter of the Bargūjar Rājput chief of Daosa, and inherited that principality, then known as Dhūndhār, from the Dhūnd river. Maidal Rāo, Tej Karan’s grandson, took the fortress of Amber from the Mīna chief Bhāto, and made it his capital. Maidal’s great-grandson, Pajūn, married the sister of Prithvī Rāj of Ajmer and Delhi, and was killed with his brother-in-law at the second battle of Tarāorī. The Amber state, as it was known after the establishment of that town as the capital, was of little importance until the reign of Humāyūn. Towards the end of the fourteenth century Udai Karan, prince of Amber, added the Shekhāwati district to his dominions, but his house did not otherwise specially distinguish itself.