EARLY HISTORY OF THE FAMILY ; MUDHOL
LAXMANSINHA, the 128th in the line of the Solar line, from
Shri Ramchandra, ascended the throne in V.S 1331 (H.675). It is needless to say the times of Laxmansinha were critical and full of sudden turns of fortune for the Rajput Kings. Emperor Allaudin Khilji attacked Chittor twice in a short space of time, and eventually reduced the fort, which had been kept free from the unholy touch of the Mohammedans. During these seiges, Laxmansinha lost eleven of his sons one after the other. Ajaysinha,who was the pet of his father, was sent with a select retinue, outside the fort, and was asked by his father to live in the western province of Kilawada.
At the time of his departure, Laxmansinha had given expression to his last wish that after him Hamir, the son of Arisinha, the elder brother of Ajaysinha, should be seated on the throne. Ajaysinha after reaching the province of Kilawada ruled their for a time. During this interval he had to fight many petty and big potentates in the hill tracts near Kilawada. Munj was the most powerful of the lot. While fighting him, Ajaysinha had a hand-to-hand fight with Munj. Munj fled away but not before dealing a heavy thrust with his spear on the head of Ajaysinha. Ajaysinha returned to his capital and sent to avenge his wound his young sons Sujansinha and Ajabsinha, though they were young lads of ten and eleven. They were not able to accomplish the deed and so Ajaysinha sent for his nephew Rana Hamir, who undertook the deed and and took a vow not to return without the head of Munj. Shortly afterwards he returned tying to his saddle the head of the enemy. He placed it at the feet of his uncle and humbly asked him to say whether it was the head of his enemy. Rana Ajaysinha warmly embraced his nephew and said, "My child, it is written by your auspicious state that on your shoulder should rest the responsibility of this nation". He took the blood from the head of Munj and made a mrk with it on the head of Hamir.