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Rajput bardic accounts describe the Chauhans as one of the four Agnikula Rajput clans which claims to have originated from a sacrificial fire-pit (agnikunda) at Mount Abu to fight against the Asuras or demons whereas in context Agnikula is considered as another branch of Suryavanshi Rajput descent.[4][5] Descendants of these Chauhan Rajput ruled princely states in Western and Northern India until the pre-independence era.[6] Manik Rai (AD 685), progenitor of Chauhan dynasty[7] was lord of Ajmer and Sambhar in Western Rajwara.