A Mother who Sacrificed her own son to save the future of Mewar
On that dark night, no one knows how much Panna Dhai sobbed for her son. Every time she saws that innocent child and tried to find her own son's face in his face. This story is about a mother who completely changed the definition of sacrifice and loyalty. The woman who sacrificed her own son for the sake of obligation, who witnessed the baptism of the blood of her own son but saved the prince.
The city of magnificent marble Palaces and mesmerizing lakes Udaipur, which is also known as the Venice of East. Perhaps one of the most precious and scrumptious cities of Rajasthan. Historians dedicated the reason for such a rattling and scrumptious place to king Udai Singh who established Udaipur as the capital of Mewar in the 16th century. Behind the layer of this ravishing city, there is a story which shudders the soul of any person. Prince Udai could never become Maharana Udai Singh if this courageous, staunched and duty abiding woman could not sacrifice her own son to save the life of the inheritor of Mewar. Udai Singh who established the city Udaipur as the capital but the most crucial incident of his life happened in Chittorgarh of Mewar. Chittorgarh Fort, the symbol of Rajputana glory, scintillation and heroism. Udai Singh was born in Chittorgarh. According to the tradition of governess in the royal families, Udai Singh also took care by his governess after her birth, that time no one knows that this governess would be going to turn the destiny of Mewar. There is conflict regarding the fact that from which society Panna Dhai concretely belonged. Some say she was predominantly from the Rajput family while others say she was verily from the Gujjar family. From the very ancient time, the tradition of governess was very popular in the royal families, might be because the queens were mostly busy living their luxurious lives or might be handling the interior responsibilities of the palaces.
A governess was appointed as that woman who was very loyal and close to the family because there was always a threat of attack on the royal princes. There was always a threat that if the enemy might kill the royal princes by giving poison or by any other mean. Panna Dhai also had her own son whose name was Chandan. His age was similar to the age of Prince Udai Singh. Panna Dhai was never discriminated between her son and the prince. Even she loved and obligated more to Prince Udai than her own son. During that time, when Prince Udai was a kid, The king Rana Sangram Singh took care of the kingdom and Panna took care of the Prince of the family. Udai Singh was very much beloved of their father Rana Sangram Singh and Queen Karmavati. Panna Dhai not only took care of prince Udai but also recited courageous stories to him to prepare him to become the king of Mewar in the future. Panna Dhai was so much allegiant to the Royal Family that even today also people say that not only blood but also loyalty and obligation had also flowed in the veins of Panna Dhai. Due to her extreme faithfulness and allegiance, she was not only the governess but also the advisor of the queen of Mewar Rani Karmavati. As time passes, the shadow of threat and danger started to revolve around the fort.
Vikramaditya became the new ruler who was the elder brother of Udai Singh. On one side, the child Udai Singh was growing with the care and love of Panna Dhai while on the other side the king Vikramaditya who had forgotten his responsibilities toward his kingdom and people, lived his life in luxury without even care about anyone and even his indignant behaviour was became a huge problem for the people of Mewar. King Vikramaditya very much liked to tantalized people, insulted and excruciated them in front of everyone. His mother Queen Karnavati was also very much distraught from his such kind of behaviour. Queen Karnavati shared almost every problem & feeling of her with Panna Dhai and asked her for effective advice, but no one knows that the destiny of Mewar was taking the turn. Due to his nasty and licentious behaviour, the other rulers whose kingdoms were close to Mewar and those rulers who were good friends of Mewar started eliminated their relations and friendship with Mewar. During that time, the Ruler of Gujarat, Bahadur Shah took the advantage of this situation and sent their army chief Mohammad shah Asari to attack Mewar. As the king, Vikramaditya was a weak ruler, he very soon accepted his defeat.
So, on the advice of Panna Dhai Rajmata Karnavati sent request messages to their nearby kingdoms to help them in that tough situation. She urged them to help Mewar for the sake of those good relations and friendship once they had with Mewar, as time passes, situations became worse for Mewar. In those circumstances, Panna Dhai adviced Queen Karmavati to send Rakhi to the emperor Humayun and made him her brother, requested him to come to Mewar as soon as possible and saved it from such severe attack. On the order of Queen Karmavati, Panna Dhai took away the youngest son Udai Singh with her to Bundi for his security purposes. All the neighbour rulers of Mewar decided to take part in this war, not because of king Vikramaditya but to save the esteem and reputation of Mewar. Due to such respect and request as a sister by Queen Karmavati, Emperor Humayun also moved for Mewar from Bengal with his army to help her kingdom but while he was coming from Bengal, he was stuck in Gwalior and Queen Karmavati didn't have much time so she did Jauhar (jumped into the burning fire to save their characters and themselves from enemies) with other women of Mewar. Udai Singh lost his mother. Panna Dhai took back Udai Singh in the palace only when King Vikramaditya took control over the Mewar again by the help of Emperor Humayun.
Panna Dhai was not only a prudent lady but also a far-sighted one. She had the ability of deep thinking and intellect of finding the best possible solution to any problem. She worked as an effective political advisor to the queen Karmavati. After the war, King Vikramaditya again started to behave brutely with the senior advisors of the court who was from his father's time in the court. He even slapped one of the most senior advisors of the court Karamchandra Ji. After seeing this all, the other ministers of the court became so aggressive and took a strong decision to send King Vikramaditya to the prison of the fort. But the question was who would become the king of Mewar then? All the ministers of the court decided to run the administration of Mewar on the name of Udai Singh but the caretaker of this kingdom till Udai Singh become mature would be Vanveer. Vanveer was the son of the elder brother of Rana Sanga and one of his governess. As Vanveer also had royal blood in him so he also thought that he could become the caretaker of Mewar. But soon his ambition started to grow from becoming just a caretaker to the king of Mewar. He planned to kill Prince Udai on the coming next night. Vikramaditya was in prison, he didn't have any idea about the upcoming threat. Panna Dhai was reciting lullaby in the room of Prince Udai for Udai and Chandan so that both the kids slept comfortably and peacefully. Vanveer first killed Vikramaditya by his sword, after killed Vikramaditya Vanveer moved toward the room of six-year-old prince Udai Singh to kill him. Before Vanveer reached to kill Uda Singh, someone informed Panna Dhai about his brutal plan.
On one side Panna was shocked by the ferocious Plan of Vanveer but soon Panna deeply understood every situation. Now its time for Panna to take a decision to choose the love for her own son Chandan or her love, responsibility and loyalty toward the six-year-old Prince Udai Singh who was the only hope and future of Mewar. Without any hesitation, this courageous woman took the decision and picked up Prince Udai from the hammock and hid him in a huge basket of fruits and covered it with some leaves. She gave that basket to one of the loyal soldiers of Mewar and requested him to take away this basket to the bank of the river. Then this impudent mother moved toward her own son, with full of grief and shivering hands she picked up her own son from the floor and shifted him to the royal hammock where prince Udai used to sleep. Soon Vanveer entered the room, She didn't say a word but to stand still on one side of the room. Vanveer every ruthlessly stabbed his sword on the chest of that innocent child Chandan. He killed her only son and heir of her family. This unaided mother witnessed the murder of her son from her own eyes. She was helpless, she was unassisted, she sacrificed her own blood and not even a single drop of tear dropped from her eyes in front of him. She saved the royal blood and the future of this kingdom on the sake of her own blood, on the sake of her own son.
She was the real devout of Mewar, Her loyalty for this Kingdom was extraordinary. No one can even imagine today what that courageous woman struggled with. She even didn't has time to cry for her son because she knew that before anyone knows about that the boy who was killed was not prince Udai but the own son of Panna Dhai and she was the one who saved prince Udai, she and prince both would be in a devastating threat. As soon as possible, she took aways Prince Udai Singh with her to the Kumbhalgarh. Some people may be raised a point that if Panna Dhai could save one child then why not she could save both the child? If she could try to save both the kids, she would definitely be lost the life of both the kids with her own life as well because Vanveer could do anything or searched everywhere either near or far away kingdoms in search of those three to kill all of them. No one knows how many nights she cried for her own son, how many times she tried to find the face of her own son in Udai's face. Even after reached to Kumbhalgarh, she didn't give up and trained Udai every day and made him strong to become the King, the Maharana of Mewar as Maharana Udai Singh.
That six-year-old Prince Udai could never become Maharana Udai Singh if this devout, courageous and faithful governess of Mewar didn't sacrifice her own son, her own blood to save the future and the hope of Mewar Prince Udai Singh.
A governess was appointed as that woman who was very loyal and close to the family because there was always a threat of attack on the royal princes. There was always a threat that if the enemy might kill the royal princes by giving poison or by any other mean. Panna Dhai also had her own son whose name was Chandan. His age was similar to the age of Prince Udai Singh. Panna Dhai was never discriminated between her son and the prince. Even she loved and obligated more to Prince Udai than her own son. During that time, when Prince Udai was a kid, The king Rana Sangram Singh took care of the kingdom and Panna took care of the Prince of the family. Udai Singh was very much beloved of their father Rana Sangram Singh and Queen Karmavati. Panna Dhai not only took care of prince Udai but also recited courageous stories to him to prepare him to become the king of Mewar in the future. Panna Dhai was so much allegiant to the Royal Family that even today also people say that not only blood but also loyalty and obligation had also flowed in the veins of Panna Dhai. Due to her extreme faithfulness and allegiance, she was not only the governess but also the advisor of the queen of Mewar Rani Karmavati. As time passes, the shadow of threat and danger started to revolve around the fort.
Vikramaditya became the new ruler who was the elder brother of Udai Singh. On one side, the child Udai Singh was growing with the care and love of Panna Dhai while on the other side the king Vikramaditya who had forgotten his responsibilities toward his kingdom and people, lived his life in luxury without even care about anyone and even his indignant behaviour was became a huge problem for the people of Mewar. King Vikramaditya very much liked to tantalized people, insulted and excruciated them in front of everyone. His mother Queen Karnavati was also very much distraught from his such kind of behaviour. Queen Karnavati shared almost every problem & feeling of her with Panna Dhai and asked her for effective advice, but no one knows that the destiny of Mewar was taking the turn. Due to his nasty and licentious behaviour, the other rulers whose kingdoms were close to Mewar and those rulers who were good friends of Mewar started eliminated their relations and friendship with Mewar. During that time, the Ruler of Gujarat, Bahadur Shah took the advantage of this situation and sent their army chief Mohammad shah Asari to attack Mewar. As the king, Vikramaditya was a weak ruler, he very soon accepted his defeat.
So, on the advice of Panna Dhai Rajmata Karnavati sent request messages to their nearby kingdoms to help them in that tough situation. She urged them to help Mewar for the sake of those good relations and friendship once they had with Mewar, as time passes, situations became worse for Mewar. In those circumstances, Panna Dhai adviced Queen Karmavati to send Rakhi to the emperor Humayun and made him her brother, requested him to come to Mewar as soon as possible and saved it from such severe attack. On the order of Queen Karmavati, Panna Dhai took away the youngest son Udai Singh with her to Bundi for his security purposes. All the neighbour rulers of Mewar decided to take part in this war, not because of king Vikramaditya but to save the esteem and reputation of Mewar. Due to such respect and request as a sister by Queen Karmavati, Emperor Humayun also moved for Mewar from Bengal with his army to help her kingdom but while he was coming from Bengal, he was stuck in Gwalior and Queen Karmavati didn't have much time so she did Jauhar (jumped into the burning fire to save their characters and themselves from enemies) with other women of Mewar. Udai Singh lost his mother. Panna Dhai took back Udai Singh in the palace only when King Vikramaditya took control over the Mewar again by the help of Emperor Humayun.
Panna Dhai was not only a prudent lady but also a far-sighted one. She had the ability of deep thinking and intellect of finding the best possible solution to any problem. She worked as an effective political advisor to the queen Karmavati. After the war, King Vikramaditya again started to behave brutely with the senior advisors of the court who was from his father's time in the court. He even slapped one of the most senior advisors of the court Karamchandra Ji. After seeing this all, the other ministers of the court became so aggressive and took a strong decision to send King Vikramaditya to the prison of the fort. But the question was who would become the king of Mewar then? All the ministers of the court decided to run the administration of Mewar on the name of Udai Singh but the caretaker of this kingdom till Udai Singh become mature would be Vanveer. Vanveer was the son of the elder brother of Rana Sanga and one of his governess. As Vanveer also had royal blood in him so he also thought that he could become the caretaker of Mewar. But soon his ambition started to grow from becoming just a caretaker to the king of Mewar. He planned to kill Prince Udai on the coming next night. Vikramaditya was in prison, he didn't have any idea about the upcoming threat. Panna Dhai was reciting lullaby in the room of Prince Udai for Udai and Chandan so that both the kids slept comfortably and peacefully. Vanveer first killed Vikramaditya by his sword, after killed Vikramaditya Vanveer moved toward the room of six-year-old prince Udai Singh to kill him. Before Vanveer reached to kill Uda Singh, someone informed Panna Dhai about his brutal plan.
On one side Panna was shocked by the ferocious Plan of Vanveer but soon Panna deeply understood every situation. Now its time for Panna to take a decision to choose the love for her own son Chandan or her love, responsibility and loyalty toward the six-year-old Prince Udai Singh who was the only hope and future of Mewar. Without any hesitation, this courageous woman took the decision and picked up Prince Udai from the hammock and hid him in a huge basket of fruits and covered it with some leaves. She gave that basket to one of the loyal soldiers of Mewar and requested him to take away this basket to the bank of the river. Then this impudent mother moved toward her own son, with full of grief and shivering hands she picked up her own son from the floor and shifted him to the royal hammock where prince Udai used to sleep. Soon Vanveer entered the room, She didn't say a word but to stand still on one side of the room. Vanveer every ruthlessly stabbed his sword on the chest of that innocent child Chandan. He killed her only son and heir of her family. This unaided mother witnessed the murder of her son from her own eyes. She was helpless, she was unassisted, she sacrificed her own blood and not even a single drop of tear dropped from her eyes in front of him. She saved the royal blood and the future of this kingdom on the sake of her own blood, on the sake of her own son.
She was the real devout of Mewar, Her loyalty for this Kingdom was extraordinary. No one can even imagine today what that courageous woman struggled with. She even didn't has time to cry for her son because she knew that before anyone knows about that the boy who was killed was not prince Udai but the own son of Panna Dhai and she was the one who saved prince Udai, she and prince both would be in a devastating threat. As soon as possible, she took aways Prince Udai Singh with her to the Kumbhalgarh. Some people may be raised a point that if Panna Dhai could save one child then why not she could save both the child? If she could try to save both the kids, she would definitely be lost the life of both the kids with her own life as well because Vanveer could do anything or searched everywhere either near or far away kingdoms in search of those three to kill all of them. No one knows how many nights she cried for her own son, how many times she tried to find the face of her own son in Udai's face. Even after reached to Kumbhalgarh, she didn't give up and trained Udai every day and made him strong to become the King, the Maharana of Mewar as Maharana Udai Singh.
That six-year-old Prince Udai could never become Maharana Udai Singh if this devout, courageous and faithful governess of Mewar didn't sacrifice her own son, her own blood to save the future and the hope of Mewar Prince Udai Singh.