Ruler
Prithviraj Chauhan
ਪ੍ਰਿਥਵੀਰਾਜ ਚੌਹਾਨپرتھوی راج چوہان
Rajput king of Ajmer and Delhi who beat Muhammad of Ghor at Tarain in 1191 and lost to him on the same field a year later.
Prithviraj Chauhan was born in 1166 and became king of Ajmer and Delhi, the most famous of the Chauhan Rajput kings.
In 1191 he defeated Muhammad of Ghor at the First Battle of Tarain, near Thanesar. The next year Muhammad returned with a larger army, and at the Second Battle of Tarain in 1192 Prithviraj was defeated, captured and killed. The battle opened north India to Muslim rule and led to the founding of the Delhi Sultanate.
He became a legendary hero in the Prithviraj Raso, the epic of his court poet Chand Bardai, and in the story of his elopement with Samyukta, daughter of the king of Kannauj.