Prithviraj III (1165?-1192) was a king of the Rajput Chauhan (Chahamana) dynasty. He succeeded to the throne of Ajmer c. 1179, while still a minor, and his elopement with the daughter of Jai Chandra, the Gahadvala king of Kannauj, is a popular romantic tale. The Chauhan succession had been rather confused since the death of Vigraha-raja in 1165; Prithviraj reconsolidated control of the Chauhan kingdom, which included much of Rajasthan and Haryana, and unified the Rajputs against the Muslim invasions. He defeated the Afghan ruler, Muhammad of Ghor, in 1191, at the First Battle of Tarain. Prithviraj was defeated by Muhammad of Ghor (Ghauri) at the Second Battle of Tarain in 1192. He was shackled in chains and taken to Muhammad's capital of Ghazni in Afghanistan, blinded, tortured and later killed by Ghauri. Prithviraj is buried in Ghazni in such a way that one has to step on his tomb to get to the tomb of his conqueror Ghauri. Ghauri himself was later beheaded by a Hindu Jat of the Khokkar clan.
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