However Ghauri attacked for a second time the following year, whereupon Chauhan was defeated, captured at the Second battle of tarain (1192) and was executed. Gauri was arrested but Prithvi Raj Chouhan excused Gauri, when he apologised & assured that he shall not repeat the mistake in future. Chauhan defeated Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghori in the first battle of Tarain in 1191. His elopement in 1175 with Sanyogita, the daughter of jai Chander Rathod, the Gahadvala king of Kannauj, is a popular romantic tale in India. He controlled much of present-day Rajsthan and Haryana, and unified the Rajputs against Turkic invasions. He succeeded to the throne in 1169 CE at the age of 20, and ruled from the twin capitals of Ajmer and Delhi which he received from his maternal grandfather, Arkpal or Anangpal III of the tomara dynasity in Delhi. Prithviraj Chauhan was the last independent Hindu king, before hemu, to sit upon the throne of Delhi. This site is best viewed at 800 X 600 picture resolution.Prithviraj Chauhan, was a king of the Chauhan dynasty, who ruled the kingdoms of Ajmer and Delhi in northern India during the latter half of the 12th century. The material on is for informational & educational purpose only.
All rights reserved.īy using this service, you accept that you won't copy or use the data given in this website for any commercial purpose. But Prithviraj pardoned Ghori as a goodwill gesture, which Ghori repaid in a most contemptible manner.Ĭopyright ©2000. Muhammad Ghori himself was critically wounded and captured. The forces of Prithviraj inflicted a crushing defeat on Ghori's army. The rival armies met at Tarain, near Thaneshwar. So Ghori had to stay his departure in order to face Prithviraj. Muhammad Ghori left a garrison under the command of Ziauddin to defend the fort, and he himself prepared to back when the Chauhan ruler arrived at the head of a huge army to recapture the fort. Hence the army defending the city was defeated and it laid down its arms after the defeat. Historical evidences show that Prithviraj Chauhan was not prepared for this attack made in a sudden and deceitful manner. Muhammad Ghori first attacked Bhatinda and laid siege to the city in 1189. But he now had to face the formidable Rajputs led by the enigmatic Prithviraj Chauhan, ruler of Delhi and Ajmer.įor the defense of the country's north-west frontiers and what may be called the "Gateway" of India, the Chauhan ruler had strongly fortified the bordering towns of his kingdom.
With this the way was opened for him to push his conquests further into India. With the help of the ruler of Jammu, Jaidev he put an end to the rule of Ghaznavids in Punjab and captured Lahore in 1186 A.D. Nevertheless he became successful in seizing Peshawar and building a fort at Sialkot in 1181. After subduing the Ismaili Muslim heretics of Multan, he made an unsuccessful advance into Gujarat in 1178. To realize his ambition, he made his first incursion into India in 1175. He decided to extend the boundary of his kingdom and also gain wealth, through conquests. Muhammad Ghori (aka Shahabuddin Muizuddin Muhammad bin Sam) was appointed Governor of Ghazni (which his elder brother Ghiyasuddin had captured from the weak successors of Mahmud of Ghazni in 1163) in 1173.
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