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title: "8 lesser-known facts about Prithviraj Chauhan."  
description: "Prithviraj Chauhan killed a tiger with his bare hands in his younger days, here's 8 lesser-known facts about Prithviraj Chauhan."  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-11-13  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1560/8-lesser-known-facts-about-prithviraj-chauhan  
category: "history"  
tags: ["Prithvi Raj Chauhan", "Maratha emperor", "prithvi raj", "prithvi raj facts", "Maratha facts"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# 8 lesser-known facts about Prithviraj Chauhan.

![8 lesser known facts about Prithviraj Chauhan](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9eb1ad42-ead9-43f8-a9fb-86f1e33b3f71/images/12357e9c-0d6e-4359-9e20-cbb6ca5515f6.jpeg) ![8 lesser known facts about Prithviraj Chauhan](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9eb1ad42-ead9-43f8-a9fb-86f1e33b3f71/images/3d1fe808-f6f6-4cfc-910d-b3fbcc897ef5.jpeg) Prithviraj Chauhan killed a tiger with his bare hands in his younger days. ![8 lesser known facts about Prithviraj Chauhan](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9eb1ad42-ead9-43f8-a9fb-86f1e33b3f71/images/f77789d4-f809-4743-943a-9481b028789f.jpeg) He defeated the king of Gujarat only at an age of thirteen and his maternal grandfather Angam declared him the king of Delhi after seeing his bravery. ![8 lesser known facts about Prithviraj Chauhan](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9eb1ad42-ead9-43f8-a9fb-86f1e33b3f71/images/206baa3c-a499-48e8-80f7-38085eff0da4.jpeg) Chand Bardai, Prithviraj’s friend and poet court, wrote a poem 'Prithviraj Raso' describing his life ![8 lesser known facts about Prithviraj Chauhan](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9eb1ad42-ead9-43f8-a9fb-86f1e33b3f71/images/b02c34fc-2e1d-4437-b2e0-350d4a269a48.jpeg) The 'Prithviraja Vijaya' mentions that he studied 6 languages while the 'Prithviraj Raso' claims that he learned 14 languages. ![8 lesser known facts about Prithviraj Chauhan](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9eb1ad42-ead9-43f8-a9fb-86f1e33b3f71/images/03130d91-a340-40b3-be91-279f4f8ac1aa.jpeg) Prithviraj's wife Somyukta was the daughter of Jaichandra Gahadwal who was Prithviraj's enemy. The two eloped after her father arranged a swayamvar ![8 lesser known facts about Prithviraj Chauhan](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9eb1ad42-ead9-43f8-a9fb-86f1e33b3f71/images/12357e9c-0d6e-4359-9e20-cbb6ca5515f6.jpeg) After defeating Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghori in the first battle of Tarrain in 1191, he left him unharmed and forgave him ![8 lesser known facts about Prithviraj Chauhan](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9eb1ad42-ead9-43f8-a9fb-86f1e33b3f71/images/6e159d85-4daa-4e4a-8c92-3e20be9a2e82.jpeg) When Ghori again attacked Prithviraj and won the battle of Second Tarrain in 1912, Ghori arrested Prithviraj and also made him blind with red hot iron ![8 lesser known facts about Prithviraj Chauhan](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9eb1ad42-ead9-43f8-a9fb-86f1e33b3f71/images/ed600aeb-7fa9-464f-8b8c-1b688a03c0cf.jpeg) Later Prithviraj killed Ghori in an archery competition with the help of his friend Chand Bardai and he got killed by Ghori’s bodyguard

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