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Social hierarchyRajputs supported Brahmins as scholars and priests. However, Rajputs had their own family priests, known as the Purohits. Some scions of noble Rajput families would officiate themselves as priests in their Hindu temples. For example, the Sisodia kings of Mewar considered themselves as the regents of the Eklingji, a manifestation of Shiva, and serve as the high priest of the deity as well as ruler of the state. JauharWhen the outcome of a battle was against the Rajputs, jauhar would be committed by Rajput women and children in the night and next morning men would commit saka. Brahmin priests would chant Vedic mantras and Rajput women wearing their marriage dresses, along with their young children, embrace sandalwood flames. SakaThe next morning after taking a bath, the men would wear kesariya and apply the ash from the maha samadhi of their wives and children on their foreheads and put a tulsi leaf in their mouth. Then the palace gates would be opened and men would ride out for complete annhiliation of the enemy or themselves. Rajput men and women could not be captured alive.
When
Hindus fought against other
Hindus there were never any
johars or saka because the defeated were treated with
dignity. However, history records very few instances wherein a Rajput
king sued for peace after a battle reversal and the Muslims initially
agreed to the peace terms, only for the Rajputs, and their women and
children, to be slaughtered upon surrender and once the pols or
gates of their mighty fortresses were opened.
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