This celebrated historical poem, written to sing the glories of the last Hindu emperor of India, the illustrious Pṛithvīrāja. Chauhān, records the gallant deeds of the Chauhān kings of Ajmer, and is of great importance to the history of India. Only one manuscript copy of the poem is known to be in existence. It is a birch-bark MS. in Śāradā characters and is in the Deccan College library, Poona, where it is numbered 150 in the catalogue of the collection of 1875–6. It was discovered in Kashmir in a.d. 1875 by Dr. Bühler in the course of his tour in search of Sanskrit MSS.