The blind Prithviraj was then regularly brought to the presence of the barbaric warlord to be taunted by Ghori and his courtiers. On hearing this, Ghori flew into a rage and ordered that Prithviraj’s eyes be burnt with red hot iron rods.Ghori ordered him to lower his eyes, whereupon a defiant Prithviraj declared that the eyelids of a Rajput are lowered only in death. He haughtily looked Ghori straight into the eye. After the Second Battle of Tarain, Prithviraj was taken as a prisoner in Ghor and was brought in chains before Mahmud.
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The Chauhan-Gahadvala feud led to the weakening of both Rajput kingdoms. This incident resulted in a string of battles between the two kingdoms and both of them suffered heavily. Jaichandra and his army gave earnest chase, to no avail. Prithviraj, who had been hiding behind the statue in the garb of a doorman, emerged, put Samyukta upon his steed, and made a fast getaway.The assemblage was stunned at this brash act, but more was to follow : She reached the door and garlanded the statue of Prithviraj. On the day of the ceremony, Samyukta emerged from an inner chamber, entered the venue of the, swayamwara, walked straight down the hall past the assembled suitors, bypassing them all.He made his plans and confided the same to his lover, Samyukta. To add insult to injury, Jaichand had a statue of Prithviraj made and placed at the door of the venue, thus parodying Prithviraj as a doorman.Jaichand invited many princes of acceptable rank and heritage, but deliberately failed to invite Prithviraj. He arranged a Swayamwara, a ceremony where a maiden selects her husband from a number of suitors who assemble at the invitation of her guardian. He arranged a Swayamwara, a ceremony where a maiden date.Her father got wind of this and resolved to have her safely wed at an early date. Samyogita also known as Samyukta in folklore, daughter of Jaichand, fell secretly in love with Prithviraj and began a secret correspondence with him. His fast rise aroused the envy of the then powerful ruler of Kannauj, Jaichand Gahadwala, and caused ill-feeling between the two.In Prithviraj Raso, Chand Bardai depicts Prithviraj as a romantic, chivalrous and an jextremely fearless king. His kingdom included much of the present-day Indian states of Rajasthan and Haryana, and parts of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.
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