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True Valor
She sent word that she would come down to his camp with her attendants, in seven hundred covered palanquins. The curtains stayed drawn all the way down.
Alauddin Khalji marched from Delhi on 28 January 1303 and set his camp between the Berach and the Gambhiri, below the rock of Chittor. The siege lasted eight months. And what the Sultan of Delhi had come for was not the fort.
Padmini was the queen of Ratan Singh of Chittor. And what is told of her is that she was extraordinary.
In beauty. And equally in learning, and in judgement. So that the Rana kept no counsel she was not part of.
What brought Khalji was a description. A courtier expelled from Chittor carried word of her to Delhi.
Khalji had taken Gujarat and Ranthambore, and was not accustomed to being refused anything. And he resolved to have her.
He brought an army to a fortress on a rock. And he sent in his demand.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.