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We have mostly heard of Maharana Pratap’s horse named “Chetak” which he rode in the Battle of Haldighati on 21 June 1576. 
According to tradition, Chetak, although wounded, carried Pratap safely away from the battle, but then died of his wounds. The story is recounted in court poems of Mewar from the seventeenth century onwards. The horse is first named "Cetak" in an eighteenth-century ballad, Khummana-Raso. The story was published in 1829 by Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod, a colonial officer who had been political officer to the Mewari court, in the first volume of his Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India. His account was based on the Khummana-Raso, and became the most commonly followed version of the tale. In it, the horse is named "Chytuc", and is once referred to as the "blue horse"; Pratap is at one point called the "rider of the blue horse". 
There are a few sources which mentions an elephant of Maharana, named Ramprasad, who wrecked havoc on the Mughal ranks killing “at least 16 elephants”. But there is no concrete evidence for this, also the Rajputs rode horses in battle more than elephants. One thing ,however, can be mentioned : Maharana’s soldiers put on fake trunks on their horses, so that they seemed like elephants from a distance & thereby dent the Mughal troops psychologically. 
The rumor about Maharana’s elephant may have originated from there..
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Post time: 21-4-2018 15:59:08
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21-4-2018 07:42 PM