"Before the final surrender of the citadel the Rajput ladies of the fortress lighted the fire of Jauhar in a subterranean cavern which still exists, and perished into the devouring flames to save themselves from enslavement or dishonour. Col. Tod gives a picturesque description of the heart rending scene in which a procession of chivalrous Rajput women, head- ed by the fair Padmini, queen of Ratan Singh, threw them- selves into the fire of Jauhar. ‘‘ The fair Padmini closed the throng.” writes the author of the Annals, ‘‘ which was aug- mented by whatever of female beauty or youth could be tainted by Tatar lust. They were conveyed to the cavern and the opening closed upon them, leaving them to find security from dishonour in the devouring element.’’ (...) In a single day, says Amir Khusrau, some thirty thousand Hindus were 'cut down like dry grass'. After this inhuman massacre the callous sultan ‘‘remained in Chittor for some days’’ and “‘committed every act of barbarity and dilapidation which a bigotted zeal could suggest, over- throwing the temples and other monuments of art.’’ Chittor was rechristened Khizrabad..."
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K.S. Lal, History of the Khaljis (1950) p 119 ff.
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