Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c42.s1.t1.70

v3.c42.s1.t1.70

Gūga, Gugga Chauhān.—Guga Chauhan was the son of Vacha Raja, a name of some celebrity. He held the whole of Jangaldes, or the forest lands from the Sutlej to Hariana; his capital, called Mahara, or, as pronounced, Guga ka Mahra, was on the Sutlej. In defending this he fell, with forty-five sons and sixty nephews; and as it occurred on Sunday (Rabiwar), the ninth (naumi) of the month, that day is held sacred to the manes of Guga by the ' Thirty-six Classes '³ throughout Rajputana, but especially in the desert, a portion of which is yet called Gugadeo ka thal. Even his steed, Javadia,⁴ has been immortalized [448] and has become a favourite name for a war-horse throughout Rajputana, whose mighty men swear ‘by the sakha of Guga,’ for maintaining the Rajput fame when Mahmud crossed the Sutlej.