Rāthor Origins.
This period was fruitful in change to the old-established dynasties of the Hindu continent, when numerous races of barbarians, namely, Huns, Parthians, and Getae, had fixed colonies on her western and northern frontiers.[[11]]
“In S. 526 (A.D. 470) Nain Pal obtained Kanauj, from which period the Rathors assumed the title of Kamdhuj. His son was Padarath,[[12]] his Punja, from whom sprung the thirteen great families, bearing the patronymic Kamdhuj, namely:
“1st. Dharma Bambo: his descendants styled Danesra Kamdhuj.
“2nd. Banuda, who fought the Afghans at Kangra, and founded Abhaipur: hence the Abhaipura Kamdhuj.
“3rd. Virachandra, who married the daughter of Hamira Chauhan, of Anhilpur Patan; he had fourteen sons, who emigrated to the Deccan: his descendants called Kapolia Kamdhuj.
“4th. Amrabijai, who married the daughter of the Pramara prince of Koragarh[[13]] on the Ganges;—slew 16,000 Pramaras, and took possession of Kora, whence the Kora Kamdhuj[[14]] [6].
“5th. Sujan Binod: his descendants Jarkhera Kamdhuj.
“6th. Padma, who conquered Orissa, and also Bogilana,[[15]] from Raja Tejman Yadu.
“7th. Aihar, who took Bengal from the Yadus: hence Aihara Kamdhuj.