The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s5.59
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s5.59
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His nephew was Prithivī-rāja, Prithīrāj, or Rāi Pithōra, lord of Sāmbhar and Ajmēr, famous in song and story as a chivalrous lover and doughty champion. His fame as a bold lover rests upon his daring abduction of the not unwilling daughter of Jaichand, the Gaharwār Rāja of Kanauj, which occurred in or about a. d. 1175. His reputation as a general is securely founded upon his defeat of the Chandēl Rāja, Parmāl, and the capture of Mahoba in 1182, as well as upon gallant resistance to the flood of Muhammadan invasion. Indeed, Rāi Pithōra may be described with justice as the popular hero of Northern India, and his exploits in love and war are the subject of rude epics and bardic lays to this day.²