Pratihara

The Pratiharas of Mandore were an early Rajput dynasty of Marwar in Rajasthan, taking their name from the Sanskrit word pratihara, door-keeper, from a claim that their ancestor Lakshmana, brother of Rama, had guarded Rama's door. Their inscriptions trace the line to Harichandra, whose four sons captured Mandavyapura, or Mandore, around the sixth century.

Related to the imperial Gurjara-Pratiharas of Kannauj, the family became their feudatories. Kakkuka, known from an inscription of 861, is the last recorded ruler of the early line, which was absorbed into the imperial domains.

When that empire broke under Ghaznavid raids, a junior branch kept Mandore until the fourteenth century. In 1395, pressed by the Tughlaqs of Delhi, it married its princess to the Rathore chief Rao Chunda and gave him Mandore and a thousand villages as dowry, merging into the Rathore state of Jodhpur.