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Hâra.—A famous Râjput sept which is now represented only in small numbers in these Provinces. They trace their descent to the mythical cow Kamdhenu, from whose bones (hâr) they say that they were produced. The founder of the sept was Ishta Pâla, a descendant of Mânik Râê, King of Ajmer, who in A.D. 685 “sustained the first shock of the Islâmite arms.” Ishta Pâla was wounded in battle with the invading force of Mahmûd of Ghazni. “His limbs which lay dissevered, as the story goes, were collected by Sûra Bâi; and the goddess sprinkling them with the water of life, he arose. Hence the name Hâra, which his descendants bore from the bones (hâr) thus collected; but more probably from having lost (hâra) Asi.” There are nineteen eponymous clans, of which Colonel Tod gives a list.7