Jalore

Jalore was the kingdom of the Sonagara Chauhans, based at the fort on Sonagiri hill. By 1337 its dynasty had fallen: a Delhi army stormed the fort in 1311 and killed its ruler Kanhadadeva.

Padmanabha's epic Kanhadade Prabandha, composed in 1455, celebrated the defence of Jalore. It recounted how Kanhadadeva's son Viramadeva was crowned during the siege but died within days. Palanpur briefly ruled Jalore in the 16th century before it passed to the Mughals; it returned to Marwar in 1704.