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EARLY HISTORY OF THE FAMILY, MUDHOL
LAXMANSINHA, the 128th in the Solar line, from Shri Ramchandra, ascended the
throne in V.S.1331 (H.675). It is needless to say that the times of Laxmansinha
were critical and full of sudden turns of fortune for the Rajput Kings. Emperor
Allaudin Khilji attacked Chittor or twice in a short space of time, and
eventually reduced the fort, which had been kept free from the unholy touch of
the Muhammedans. During these sieges, Laxmansinha lost eleven of his sons one
after the other. Ajaysinha, who was the pet of his father, was sent with a
select retinue, outside the fort, and was asked by his father to live in the
Western province of Kilawada.
At the time of his departure, Laxmansinha had given e
xpression to his last wish
that after him Hamir, the son of Arisinha, the elder brother of Ajayasinha,
should be seated on the throne. Ajayasinha, after reaching the province of
Kilawada, ruled there for a time. During this interval he had to fight many
petty and big potentates in the hill tracts near about Kilawada. Munj was the
most powerful of the lot. While fighting him, Ajayasinha had a hand to hand
fight with Munj. Munj fled away but not before dealing a heavy thrust with his
spear on the head of Ajayasinha. Ajayasinha returned to his capital and sent to
avenge his wound his young sons Sujansinha and Ajabsinha, though they were young
lads of ten or eleven. They were not able to accomplish the deed and so
Ajayasinha sent for his nephew Rana Hamir, who undertook the deed and took a vow
not to return without the head of the enemy Munj. Shortly afterwards he returned
tying to his saddle the head of enemy. He placed it at the feet of his uncle and
humbly asked him to say whether it was the head of his enemy. Rana Ajayasinha
warmly embraced his nephew and said, "My child, it is written by your auspicious
state that on your shoulder should rest the responsibility of this nation." He
took the blood from the head of Munj and made a mark with it on the head of
Hamir.