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This incident also took place in January 1191 A.D. Samyuktha was the one and only wife of Prithviraj. During their marriage Prithviraj was at the age of 21 and samyuktha was at the age of 17. Soon Prithviraj and Samyuktha reached delhi. Prithiviraj who was hiding behind the statue, also in the garb of a doorman, whisked Sanyogita away and put her up on his steed to make a fast getaway to his capital at Delhi. But what stunned them and her father Jaichandra was the next thing that happened. The assemblage was stunned at this brash act of hers. On the said day, Sanyogita walked down the aisle where the royals had assembled and bypassed all of them only to reach the door and garland the statue of Pritiviraj as a doorman. Prithviraj got to know of this and he confided his plans to his lover. To add insult to injury, he even made a statue of Prithiviraj and kept him as a dwarpala (doorman). Jaichandra invited all the big and small princes of the country to Kannauj for the royal Swayamwara. This is an ancient Hindu custom among Royalty).
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She had the right to garland any prince and she became his queen. So he arranged a Swayamwara (a ceremony where a bride can select her husband from the assembled princes. Haughty Jaichandra got wind of Samyuktha’s love for prithviraj and he decided to teach his daughter and her upstart lover a lesson. Though prithviraj was physically soft and much weaker than ghori, he defeated ghori by the numerical strength in his army. Thus the rajputs won the first battle only by sheer number of weight. But rajput horses were stout and slow when compared to muslim horses. Because muslim horses were lean and fast. Rajput army chased them but they could not capture the muslims. Though ghori was wounded by rajputs he managed to escape from the battlefield. So the muslims fled away from the battlefield. But he was wounded by prithviraj's vanguards. Ghori advanced towars prithviraj to kill him. Muslims killed more than one million rajputs but 75,000 muslims were killed by rajputs. There was a bloody battle in the battlefield of tarain. Prithviraj with 30,00,000 horses, 30,000 elephants and with 3,00,00,000 foot warriors went to fight Ghori's army which was just 1,00,000 in number. When Prithviraj was ruling north India, Muhammed Ghori, the Muslim sultan from Ghazni, in Afghanistan invaded India in 1191 A.D. He hated rajputs and the hindus as they were infidel. at the age of 18 and he was in charge of his brother. Muhammed Ghori became the sultan of Ghazni in 1168A.D. Pithoragarh was the name of Prithviraj’s capitals. He ruled from his twin capitals at Delhi and Ajmer.
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After ceaseless military campaigns, Pritiviraj extended his original kingdom of Sambhar (Shakambara) to Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Eastern Punjab. Pritiviraj was a romantic and lovely person. But her father Jaichandra hated Prithviraj. He became the king of kanouj at the age of 20. Jaichandra was the king of kanouj from 1168A.D. She was the one and only daughter of king jayachandra. Samyuktha was very beautiful and sexy princess. He loved samyuktha, the princess of kanouj. Prithviraj became king after his father’s death in 1178A.D. His fathers name was someshwara chauhan and his mother’s name was karpuravalli. At that time north India did not have any connections with south India and remained as separate region. Prithviraj chauhan was the ruler of most of north india during the end of 12th century.