The poetic book “Prithviraj Raso” written by Chandbardai is not fully capable of authentically describing Prithviraj Chauhan and his reign/rise/fall.
Neither the dates and times of the events mentioned in Prithviraj Raso match with historical evidence nor are many events confirmed. Yes, there was a Kashmiri Brahmin Jayanak in the court of Prithviraj who wrote the book “Prithviraj Vijay” during the lifetime of Prithviraj. In which the events recorded and the date and time period are 100% certified by historical evidence, this book did not become very famous and almost disappeared with the collapse of the Chauhan Empire. During the British period, an officer Buller, during his visit to Kashmir, found this book in a dilapidated state. When I found it, the events and Samvat mentioned in it were found to be completely correct, but unfortunately only one part of Prithviraj Vijay has been obtained, the other part is still inaccessible.
Since then, all historians are unanimous that Prithviraj Vijay is the most authentic to get all the information about Prithviraj Chauhan.
Although some incidents may also be true in Prithviraj Raso,
Although Prithviraj Raso is the best epic of Veer Rasa but its historicity is doubtful,
some confusions which appeared in this serial and in general hinders the acceptance of Raso as authentic????
1- In Raso, names/instances of characters and events born in later centuries like Taimur, Changez Khan, Rawal Ratan Singh of Mewar, Padmavati Jauhar, Khilji etc. have appeared, whereas they were born hundreds of years after Prithviraj Chauhan.
2. In the language of poetry written in Rasas, there were many words from Persian and Turkish which became popular much later during the Muslim rule in India.
3- According to Raso, there is mention of Karna Kalchuri of Dahal being defeated and imprisoned twice by Jaichand, but that happened about 125 years before Jaichand.
4- Prithviraj Raso was the only and first text in which Kannauj’s emperor Jaychandra has been written as a Rathore descendant, whereas Kannauj’s emperors Chandradev, Govindchandra, Vijaychandra and Jaychandra etc. did not write themselves Rathore or Rashtrakuta in any of their copper plate inscriptions, while some of them Even before time, Rashtrakutas were famous all over the country as a very powerful dynasty, entire South India was ruled by Rashtrakuta Rathore dynasty and many times they had attacked till Kannauj in North India.
Actually Jaychandra and his ancestors were the rulers of Kashi state of Eastern India and belonged to the Gaharwar/Gahadwal dynasty,
Kashi King Chandradev Gaharwar had defeated the ruler of Kannauj/Badaun, Gopal Rashtrakuta (Rathore) and took Kannauj from him and made Gopal Rashtrakuta a feudatory of Badaun. Had taken,
Today’s modern Rathores are the heirs of the Rashtrakuta dynasty of Badaun, whose ancestors came to attack Kannauj under the leadership of Indra/Amoghavarsha Rashtrakuta of the south during the reign of Pratihar Rajputs and settled here.
The beginning of spreading misconception by calling Emperor Jayachandra Gaharwar as Jayachandra Rathod started from Prithviraj Raso.
Whereas Jayachandra’s ancestor Govindchandra Gaharwar was married to Mathandevi, the daughter of a Rashtrakuta ruler, which clearly shows that both were from different lineages.
5- According to Raso, Rawal Samar Singh of Mewar has been described as the brother-in-law of Prithviraj Chauhan and he is shown fighting in the battle of Tarain,
whereas Rawal Samar Singh of Mewar was born 80 years after the death of Prithviraj.
6- According to Raso—— Prithviraj Chauhan’s mother Kamla Devi was the daughter of Delhi’s ruler Anangpal Tomar, and Anangpal Tomar had given Delhi to his son Prithviraj in succession, Prithviraj Chauhan was crowned on the throne of Delhi in his childhood,
Whereas the truth is that Vigraharaja IV Bisaldev, the ruler of Ajmer, the ancestor of Prithviraj Chauhan, had attacked Delhi’s ruler Madanpal Tomar and conquered Delhi and Madanpal Tomar had married his daughter Desal Devi to Bisaldev, after which Bisaldev and Ajmer. Under the Chauhans, the rulers of the Tomar dynasty continued to rule in Delhi as before.
The reign period of Anangpal Tomar I was between 736-754 AD, while the reign of Anangpal Tomar II was between 1051-1081 AD, apart from them there were no other Anangpals, then how can Delhi King
Anangpal be the maternal grandfather of Prithviraj Chauhan because his birth Anangpal ji had passed away about 80-85 years before taking it??
The truth is that Prithviraj’s mother was Karpoori Devi, the daughter of the Haihayavanshi Kalchuri Rajput ruler of Chedi, the
coronation of Prithviraj was not in Delhi but in Ajmer, Delhi was ruled by Prithviraj Tomar during the time of Prithviraj Chauhan and later by Govindraj Tomar who was a friend of Ajmer. And there were feudal lords…
7- According to Raso, one daughter of Delhi’s king Anangpal Tomar was married to Someshwar of Ajmer (Prithviraj’s father) and the other was married to Kannauj King Jaichandra, hence Jaichandra was Prithviraj’s maternal uncle
and Prithviraj forcefully married his maternal uncle Jaichandra’s daughter Sanyogita. Was married to!!!!
Is marriage with uncle’s daughter possible among Rajputs???
never,
We have told above that Anangpal Tomar did not exist at the time of Prithviraj Chauhan and Jaichandra, he was there much before them, hence Jaichandra was the maternal uncle of Prithviraj. This story is imaginary.
Not only this, there is not enough evidence for the story of Sanyogita’s abduction, in the most authentic book Prithviraj Vijay, it is only written that Prithviraj used to see dreams of an Apsara named Tilottama, there is no mention of Kannauj King’s daughter Sanyogita’s abduction or her abduction. Is..
8 – The allegation against Kannauj King Emperor Jaichandra Gaharwar of being a traitor and a traitor was first made in Prithviraj Raso itself. According to Raso, it was Jaichandra who had invited Gauri to attack India, which is completely baseless, Jaichandra’s relation with
Prithviraj
. He was not good, he did not help Prithviraj, it is true.
But he called Gauri, this is not written anywhere in any of the contemporary Muslim texts,
nor is there any other evidence in this regard.
The baseless allegation of calling Jaichandra Gaharwar a traitor and traitor is the brainchild of the creator of Prithviraj Raso whose imaginations defamed this great pious ruler and the name Jaichandra became synonymous with treason and betrayal!!!
9- It is written in Raso that Prithviraj’s daughter Bela is married to Brahma, son of Parmal, the Chandela ruler of Mahoba and Brahma dies during the time of Prithviraj, whereas Prithviraj Chauhan was only 26/27 years old at the time of his death. At that time marriage of his daughter Bela was not possible.
10 – In Raso, Prithviraj Chauhan has written about his marriage with the daughter of the Yadav king Bhanrai of the south, his marriage with Ichchhani, the daughter of King Salakh of Chandravati, and because of those marriages, his conflict with the Chalukya king Bhimdev of Gujarat, whereas in Devgiri there is no Bhanrai. There was no king named Salakh and there is no mention of the existence of any king named Salakh of Chandravati, it is
written in Raso that Prithviraj killed Bhimdev, the ruler of Gujarat, while he died 7 years after Prithviraj.
It is written in Raso that Prithviraj married Indravati, daughter of Ujjain king Bhimdev, whereas there was no ruler named Bhimdev in Ujjain.
Dozens of such imaginary stories are filled with Prithviraj Raso.
12 – In Raso, the name of Gauri’s father has been written as Sikandar, who was born 1300 years before him, apart from this, the names of all the generals of Mohammad Gauri have been written wrongly.
13- It is written in Raso that Prithviraj’s brother-in-law Rawal Samar Singh of Mewar uprooted the Muslim monarchy from Mandu, whereas the Muslim power in Mandu (Chanderi) was established by Dilawar Gauri in 1403 AD, which was uprooted by Rana Sanga in 1518 AD. It
seems that someone did not write Raso Granth somewhere in the 16th century???
14 – And finally, the dates of the events mentioned in Prithviraj Raso do not match the historical evidence at all, according to Prithviraj Raso, these events took place in the 11th century, while Muhammad Ghori and the contemporary Muslim rulers are proven to have taken place in the last decade of the 12th century. And the date sequence of the events mentioned in Prithviraj Vijay matches exactly.
In Raso, Prithviraj’s death is written in 1101 AD whereas his death occurred in 1192 AD.
If Chandbardai had been a contemporary of Prithviraj, how would he have committed such a big mistake?
Thus, it is clear that the book named Jai written by Maharishi Ved Vyas, which was originally written in 8800 verses, today has become more than 1 lakh verses by adding imaginary stories in which it is not clear what is true and what is fabricated.
Similarly, either someone made Prithviraj Raso famous by writing it around 1400 AD or later, in which events that happened later were also added, or this book may be true in its original form, but later by adding new imaginary events to it, its historicity and authenticity were compromised. Destroyed.
It is because of Raso that many wrong beliefs got propagated in the Rajput society and these beliefs have become deeply ingrained in the society, which have become almost impossible to refute.
Prithviraj Chauhan is one of the greatest warriors of the last 1000 years who unfortunately passed away at the age of just 26, otherwise he would have been the sole emperor of entire India. Complete authentic information about him can be taken from the book named Prithviraj
Vijay written by Kashmiri poet Jayanak. Yes, but unfortunately a part of it is still inaccessible.
