Eleven princes of the Ghori dynasty reigned 96 years 6 months and 20* days.

Thirteen princes of the Khilji dynasty reigned 129 years 10 months and 19 days.

In the year 429 of the era of Bikramájít (A. D. 372) Anangpál* of the Toṇwar tribe reigned with justice and founded Delhi. In the year 848 of the same luni-solar era (A. D. 791) in the vicinity of that renowned city, a hotly contested battle was fought between Prithiráj Toṇwar and Bíldeva Chauhán, and the sovereignty was transferred to this latter tribe. During the reign of Rájá Pithaura (Prithwi Rájá) Sulṭán Mụizzu'ddín Sám made several incursions into Hindustán without any material success. The Hindu chronicles narrate that the Rájá engaged and defeated the Sulṭán* in seven pitched battles. In the year 588 A. H. (A. D. 1192,) an eighth engagement took place near Thánésar and the Rájá was taken prisoner. One hundred renowned champions (it is related) were among his special retainers. They were severally called Sámant* and their extraordinary exploits cannot be expressed in language nor reconciled to experience or reason. It is said that at this battle none of these champions was present, and that the Rájá kept to his palace in selfish indulgence, passing his time in unseemly pleasure, heedless of the administration of the state and of the welfare of his troops.

The story runs that Rájá Jaichand Raṭhór, who held the supremacy of Hindustán was at this time ruling at Kanauj, and the other Rájás to some extent acknowledged his authority and he himself was so liberal-minded that many natives of Irán and Turán were engaged in his service. He announced his intention of celebrating the great sacrifice symbolic of paramount supremacy and set about its preparations. One of its conditions is that all menial service should be performed by princes alone, and that even the duties of the royal scullery and the kindling of fires are directly a part of their office. He likewise promised to bestow his beautiful daughter on the bravest of the assembled chivalry. Rájá Pithaura had resolved to attend the festival, but a chance speech of some courtier that while the Chauhán sovereignty existed, the great sacrifice could not legitimately be performed by the Raṭhór chief, inflamed his ancestral pride and he held back. Rájá Jaichand proposed to lead an army against him, but his counsellors representing the duration of the war and the approach of the appointed assembly, dissuaded him from the enterprise. To carry out the integrity of the festival, a statue of Rájá Pithaura was made in gold and placed in the office of porter at the royal gates. Roused to indignation at this news, Rájá Pithaura set out in disguise accompanied by 500 picked warriors and suddenly appeared at the gathering and carry­ing off the image, he put a great number to the sword and hastily returned. The daughter of Jaichand, who was betrothed to another prince, hearing of this adventurous deed, fell in love with Pithaura and refused her suitor. Her father, wroth at her conduct, expelled her from her chamber in the palace and assigned her a separate dwelling. Pithaura, distracted at the news, returned with a determination to espouse her, and it was arranged that Chándá a bard, a rival in skill of Babylonian* minstrelsy, should proceed to the court of Jaichand on the pretence of chanting his praises, while the Rájá himself with a body of chosen followers should accompany him as attendants. Love transformed the intention into act, and by this ingenious device and the spell of valour, he carried off his heart's desire, and after prodigies of bravery and heroism reached his own kingdom. The hundred Sámants (above mentioned) accompanied him under various disguises. One after the other they covered his retreat and defeated their pursuers. Gobind Ráe Gehlót made the first stand and bravely fighting, fell. Seven thousand of the enemy sank engulfed in death before him. Next Narsingh Deva, Chándá, Pundír, and Sárdhól* Solanki, and Pálhan Deva Kachhwáhah with his two brothers, during the first day's action, after performing feats of astonishing heroism sold their lives dearly, and all these heroes perished in the retreat.