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The Ghurid army initiated the battle by attacking with troopers who launch the arrows at the Rajput center. Prithviraj marched to Bhatinda and met his enemy at a place known as Tarain also called Taraori near the ancient town of Thanesar. In 1191, Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghori apprehends the fort of Bhatinda in East Punjab, leaving the garrison of 1200 men, which was located on the frontier of Prithiviraj Chauhan’s domains. Ghauri attacked for a second time in the following year, whereupon the Chauhan was defeated and captured at the Second Battle of Tarain in 1192 and executed.īattles of Prithviraj Chauhan First Battle of Tarain, 1191 He defeated Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghori in First Battle of Tarain in 1191. Her father the Jaichandra got wind of this and he decided to teach his daughter and her upstart lover a lesson due to this he arranged the Swayamwara.
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The daughter of Jaichandra Gahadwala, Sanyogita, fell in love with the Prithiviraj Chauhan secretly and she started the secret poetic correspondence with him. Prithiviraj Chauhan fast rise caught the envy of the then powerful ruler Jaichandra Gahadwala and there was a lot of ill-feeling between the two. After the continual military campaigns, Pritiviraj extended his original kingdom of the Sambhar (Shakambara) to Rajasthan, Gujarat and the eastern Punjab. Prithiviraj Chauhan was the romantic, gallant and an extremely fearless person. He controlled much of the present-day Rajasthan and the Haryana and merged the Rajputs against the Turkic invasions. Prithviraj Chauhan succeeded to the throne in 1169 CE at age of 20 and he ruled from the twin capitals of Ajmer and the Delhi which he received from his maternal grandfather Anangpal III or Arkpal of the Tomara dynasty in the Delhi. Prithiviraj Chauhan was the last independent Hindu King before the Hemu to sit on the throne of Delhi. Prithviraj Chauhan also known by the name of Rai Pithora (1149-1192 CE), was the Rajput king of the Chauhan dynasty who ruled the kingdoms of Ajmer and the Delhi in the northern India during the latter half of the 12th century.