Early Life
Durgadas was a Suryavanshi Rajput, belonging to the Karnot branch of the Rathore clan. He was the son of Askaran Rathore, a Rajput minister of Maharaja Jaswant Singh, the ruler of Mawar. His mother did not get along with her husband and his other wives and so she lived away from Jodhpur, which meant that Durgadas grew up in the village of Lunawa.
When Durgadas was young, a camelherder, rearing the herds of the Maharaja, ventured into Durgadas's fields. Durgadas asked the herder to remove the animals because they might damage the field. The herder paid no heed and so Durgadas killed him. Word of this reached Jaswant Singh, who summoned Durgadas and asked him why he killed the herder. Durgadas told him that the royal herd of camels was giving Jaswant Singh a bad name by destroying the crops of ordinary people. The Maharaja was very impressed with the forthrightness of Durgadas and gave him an appointment in the army.
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