We women won't let the enemy touch our houses

Inside the fort of Chittod, when all the Rajput warriors left the fort for war, The palace ladies gathered all the women towards the palace of their queen, Maharani Padmini.

When they reached outside of their queen's palace, they saw Maharani Padmini sitting outside the palace with her maids looking in the distance.

"Choti Rani Saiba~" They bowed one by one and greeted Maharani Padmini.

Maharani Padmini nodded at them and said, "Today I have asked all of you to choose for yourselves." Her tone turned a bit sour as she continued, "I have already taken permission from Maharaj that I will perform Jauhar if the Rajput army lost…"

She then looked at all 16,000 women standing before her and said, "I will not force any of you to perform Jauhar with me… you all can choose not to…"

Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by an elderly woman. She looked at Maharani Padmini and said,

"Choti Rani Saiba, If you will perform Jauhar what face do we have to refuse… we will follow after you…"

"Ji Rani Saiba…" All the women said in unison. They knew that if the Rajput army lost outside, there would be nothing left for them. On contrary, if they were caught by the enemy soldiers, even peaceful death would be impossible for them.

They all knew about what happened to the kingdom of Devgiri a few months ago. The women captured by the Khilji army were sold to the Arab slave masters. At the same time, beautiful women were kept by the Khilji officials and added to their Harem collection. Alauddin Khilji also captured the princess of the Devgiri and tortured her to death.

They knew that if they were captured, the same fate awaited them so they readily agreed to perform Jauhar. They made their choice to keep their dignity rather than live the life of a slave.

Maharani Padmini looked at all of them with a proud face and continued, "We will perform Jauhar, surely… but we won't go without fight…"

Her eyes turned serious as she called out, "Rani come here…"

Rani who was still inside the palace walked out with a big bad in her hand. He had her face covered with a cloth. She took the heavy bag and gently placed it a little distance away from all the ladies outside the palace.

The ladies looked at Rani with curiosity in their eyes. When they saw Rani open the bag they noticed a large number of small sacs came out of the bag.

Rani who was done placing the small bags carefully took one small sack and walked toward the place where all ladies were seated. She then looked toward Maharani Padmini while asking her permission and Maharani Padmini nodded at her in response.

Rani then turned her attention toward all the ladies and said, "This bag in my hand is called Poison sac."

When all the ladies heard the word poison, their faces changed as they all looked at Rani with strange eyes. They could not understand what this lass is doing but they all still listened carefully.

"This poison sac is used to create poison fog… All you have to do is light it on fire…"

Rani demonstrated as she lit the bag and carefully threw the bag a distance away from the crowd. As soon as the small bag landed on the ground, a green for came out of the poison sacs that spread around the poison sac.

All women watched horribly as the grass on the floor withered when it came into contact with the green fog. Some of them who were close to the green fog immediately retreated with fear.

Rani did not think much about it. She knew that the fog was way heavier than air and had way worse spreadability. So after her demonstration, she bowed to Maharani Padmini and then walked back toward the poison sacs.

Maharani Padmini then looked at the ladies in front of her and said, "This is a new type of Astra created by Rani. We will use it against every person who tries to harm our Chittod… Who tries to take down out home…"

Her eyes turned red as she said, "Our men are protecting our motherland… and now as women, it is our responsibility to protect our house… We won't even let the Khilji army touch our homes…"

All women proudly looked at Maharani Padmini in front of them and said in unison, "We won't let our enemies touch our homes…"

"Good… Take these poison sacs and wait for the News…"