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Founder of Bikaner
Rao
Bikaji was the most lively and enterprising among the five sons of Rao Jodhaji
of Marwar . Realizing that a struggle for his paternal inheritance was not likely
to be fruitful, this adventurous price was determined to chart out his own destiny.
Rao Bika gathered a force of young warriors, whose restless energy proved to
be a powerful motivating force in confronting the hazards of the desert. At
Deshnok, he sought the blessings of Karni Devi, a mystic Charan, a Caste of
Bards who preserved the genealogy, folk culture and heroic legends of the race
and are therefore held in high regard. She blessed him and prophesied his victory
and he founded the state of Bikaner .His fortified city is an encircled by imposing
battlements and even today stands on a slight eminence.
