Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c42.s1.t1.40

v3.c42.s1.t1.40

Mānik Rāe.—With the name of Manika Rae, the history of the Chauhan emerges from obscurity, if not fable; and although the bard does not subsequently entertain us with much substantial information, we can trace his subject, and see his heroes fret their hour upon the uncertain stage, throughout a period of twelve hundred years. It was at this era (A.D. 685) that Rajputana was first visited by the arms of Islam, being the sixty-third year of the Hejira. Manika Rae, then prince of Ajmer, was slain by the Asuras, and his only child, named Lot, then an infant of seven years of age, was killed by an arrow while playing on the battlements (kunguras). The invasion is said to have been from Sind, in revenge for the ill-treatment of an Islamite missionary