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🚩 #Thread #LostHistory 🚩1/n The Untold Legend of #HadiRani
Hadi Rani - A familiar name in Mewar but unknown to Rest of India.The daughter of Hada Chauhan Rajput & married to Chundawat chieftain of Salumbar in Mewar who sacrificed herself to motivate her husband to go to war🚩
Hadi Rani - A familiar name in Mewar but unknown to Rest of India.The daughter of Hada Chauhan Rajput & married to Chundawat chieftain of Salumbar in Mewar who sacrificed herself to motivate her husband to go to war🚩
🚩2/n When Maharana Raj Singh I (1653–1680) of Mewar called his Commander to join the battle against Aurangzeb, the Commander - having married only a few days earlier hesitated but the Inner Strength of Rajput Self honour finally made him join the battle despite hesitatingly🚩
🚩3/n The Commander asked his wife #HadiRani , for some memento to take with him to the battlefield. Thinking that she was an obstacle to his doing his duty for Mewar, she cut off her head and put it on a plate. A servant covered it with a cloth and presented it to her husband🚩
चुण्डावत मांगी सैनाणी ।
सिर काट दे दियो क्षत्राणी ।।
"Chundawat maangi senani,
sir kaat de diyo Kshatrani"
Translation: The Chundawat (Chief) had asked for a token, and the Kshatrani gave her head.
#HadiRani
Artwork by- ArsalanActual (Instagram)
सिर काट दे दियो क्षत्राणी ।।
"Chundawat maangi senani,
sir kaat de diyo Kshatrani"
Translation: The Chundawat (Chief) had asked for a token, and the Kshatrani gave her head.
#HadiRani
Artwork by- ArsalanActual (Instagram)
And so was the Hadi Rani described in the couplet from a poem etched out from the collective conscious of the people hearing of her valour for generations.
The year was 1680, the Mughal Empire was ruled by the dreaded Emperor Aurangzeb,
The year was 1680, the Mughal Empire was ruled by the dreaded Emperor Aurangzeb,
his reign of terror was as reckless as it was Machiavellian. A few years prior Maharaja Jaswant Singh I of Marwar (Jodhpur) had subjugated the Afghans and given Afghanistan to the Emperor on a platter, and he was repaid with his assassination,
