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Kings And Chronicles : The Mughal Courts
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Discuss the various theories regarding the origin of the Rajputs.

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(a) Many of the Rajput clans trace their genealogy to the solar and lunar families of Kshatriyas which are mentioned in the Mahabharata.

(b)    Some other trace their ancestry back to a sacrificial fire said to have been held at Mt. Abu by the sage Vaistha.

(c)    We cannot depend upon these traditions because some of them; such as the legend of the sacrificial fire at Mt. Abu from which some of the Rajput clans, such as the Pratihara, Parmara, Chauhan and Solanki, is mentioned for the first time in the later vedic traditions.

(d)    We can deduce from traditions only that different Rajput clans have different origins. Some scholars, both foreign and Indian think that a number of these clans descended from Scythians and Hunas who settled in India after Harsha, while a number of others belonged to indigenous tribes.

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