Jauhar is the custom which was performed by Rajput Queens for her Honour, Pride & Dignity. In this practice Queens sacrifice by jumping into the burning pool of fire to protect their pride & Honour. When Rajput Warriors go in battle ground in do or die condition then their wives prepare herself for Jauhar & after her husband was martyred in battlefield, she used to jump in the fire to save her Pride. So that the enemy does not catch them & their honour is not lost. This Practice was repeated three times in Chittorgarh fort. Today in this blog we will read about all the Jauhar’s that took in the chittor fort.
1. First Jauhar of Chittor
The first Jauhar of Chittor fort was occurred in 1303 when Allauddin Khilji attacked chittor. At this time the ruler of Chittor was Rana Rawal Ratan Singh. His wife Queen ‘Padmavati‘ was very beautiful & intelligent. Her beauty was discussed in all over the world. When Allauddin Khilji heard the beauty gossips of Queen ‘Padmavati‘, he thaught of making her his queen. For which he arrested Rana Ratan Singh by deceit in Delhi & demanded Queen Padmavati in return. But Queen ‘Padmavati‘ got out Rana Ratan singh from Delhi with her Courage & Intelligence. After failing his trick Khilji attacked chittor fort with a large army. In this war Rana Ratan Singh was killed. After the death of Rana Ratan Singh Queen ‘Padmavati’ sacrifice with 16 thousand queen by jumping in pool of fire to protect her honour from enemy & Khilji’s dream was only a dream, even after so many efforts, he could not even see the face of Queen ‘Padmavati‘ in his whole life.
2. Second Jauhar of Chittor
2. The second Jauhar of Chittor
The second jauhar of Chittor was occurred in 1535. After the death of Rana Sanga the Rajput army was significantly weakened. Which was benefited by Bahadur Shah, the ruler of Gujrat in 1935. In 1935 Bahadur Shah attacked chittor fort with large army. In this war where Bahadur had lakhs of soldiers & weapons, the same rajput had 30-40 thousand soldiers & they not yet emerged from the mourning of Rana Sanga’s Death. During this war Queen ‘Karnavati’ sent a letter to Humayun for help. As Humayun assured her of eligibility of help at the time of problem. But at that time Humayun refused to help Queen Karnavati & after that Queen Karnavati
did Jauhar with 13000 queen by jumping in pool of fire after seeing Rajput army defeated in battle.
3. Third Jauhar of Chittor
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The third Jauhar of Chittor is also known as Fatal (Ghatak) Jauhar. The third Jauhar was occurred in 1567 when Akbar seige Chittor fort with overall 1 lakh soldiers. Due to chittor fort being very strong & high, the Mughal army could not directly attack the fort. Therefore, Akbar besieged the chittor fort with a large army & forced Rajput army come to the battlefield. In this war, Rana Uday Singh was sent out from chittor fort with his son Pratap Singh & his family so that there would be hope of taking back fort in future. After this, Rajput army with 8000 soldiers landed in the battlefield to fight with 1 lakh warriors. In this war 8000 Rajput warriors killed 15-20 thousand Mughal Soldiers & gave their sacrifice. The Best warriors of Mewar was martyred in this war. Some of them are – Chundawat Sigh Rawat, , Jaimal, Patha, , Kalla & Sanda Singh. After the Rajput army was martyred in battle, Queen Phoolkanwar with thousands queens did Jauhar & then akbar captured chittor fort & killed aprrox. 30,000 innocent villagers.
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