Thread by @virendrarathore

While the issue of Nayakidevi’s ancestry may be open for debate. I wanted to share some comments over the arguments furthered in the quoted thread. I’m not regular on twitter anymore so there won’t be a follow through.

https://twitter.com/HindutvaItihas/status/1374312232344023042

Claim: Paramardin’s age at ascension on throne has been given as 5 years.
Basis given? Parmal Raso. A text which is as credible as the Prithviraj Raso is on Prithviraj Chauhan (pun intended). Parmal Raso is a creation of 16th century or later which actually states that...

Paramardin Chandella’s son Brahmanand forcibly married Prithviraj’s daughter Bela “during the time when both Prithviraj and Paramardin were alive” (emphasis mine). This Raso also speaks of Prithviraj firing cannons at Chandella forces. Cannons which were mainstreamed in...

north India only in the 16th century A.D. There are many more marvels of such Raso’s but we’ll digress if we ventured further at this point. So, Parmardin being 5 yrs old during ascension to throne is laughable at best.

Then comes the Ajaygarh inscription. Be it a patronized bard or the scribe of an inscription, the range of creativity and talent applied in heaping praises and lionizing the patrons is well-known...

In that light, it is amusing to assume that calling someone a leader in youth would equate with them ascending to the throne in the youth.

“Aji hamare chote Saahab ne to bachpan se hi apne lakshan dikhane shuru kar diye the” does not mean that the chote saahab replaced bade saahab in the childhood itself. It is just a way of praising the patron lineage’s jewels.

Considering the children and events, Naikidevi’s wedding would have taken place around 1170 AD.
Given the medieval norms and fertility age, Naikidevi must be born in or before 1154 AD. If one considers Chandella ancestry, Paramardi’s year of birth can be placed in early 1130s.

Then keeping his father’s birth in early 1110s we reach the grandfather Madanavarman’s arrival at late 1180s AD.
In the end A) Madanavarman’s known ascension to throne (1129 AD) comes for him at the age of approx 40 which we know is

not most the frequent bracket but has plenty of examples to support. B) Paramardi’s age at the time of death works out to be 70 years, which isn’t odd given that his contemporary Bhola Bhim Chaulukya also passed away in late 60s.

Lastly, I’m not arguing that the case is sealed in favour of Chandella ancestry for Nayakidevi. But that the currently available information is insufficient to be dead sure of denying it.