βIn these golden times of Rajput life when swords were never allowed to rust nor steeds to rest, and the poet-bard was always wanted at the side of the warrior as a witness of his deeds and a singer of his praises, the lavishness of the chiefs to the bards had known no limits."
Explains the high and inviolable status of Charans who served as poet-bards. Immortalizing the actions of their warrior patrons, the aristocratic hosts; encouraging them to fight for the "good and beautiful," they were rewarded with land grants, horses, elephants, cattles, gold.
Such was their importance in kshatriya tradition that a twelfth-century warrior of the Rathore clan having no poet of his own, forcefully detained another Rajput and compelled him to become one, who then became the ancestor of the Roharia lineage of the Charans.
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