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The Dhanetiya are a Rajput clan found in the state of Rajasthan and Gujarat in India

Origin
Dhanetiya Rajput The Dhanetiya are Agnivanshi Rajput, one of the most celebrated Chauhan branches and according to their traditions, they were based in and around Shahabad, BONDI Rajasthan MANIKA RAE CHAUHAN S. 741, or A.D. 685.

Manika Rae in his adversity. The goddess Sakambhari appears to him, while seeking shelter from the pursuit of this merciless foe, and bids him establish himself in the spot where she mani- fested herself, guaranteeing to him the possession of all the ground he could encompass with his horse on that day ; but commanded him not to look back until he had returned to the spot where he left her. He commenced the circuit, with what he deemed his steed could accomplish, but forgetting the injunction, he was surprised to see the whole space covered as with a sheet. This was the desiccated sar, or salt-lake, which he named after his patroness Sakambhari, whose statue still exists on a small island in the lake, now corrupted to Sambhar.^

However jejune these legends of the first days of Chauhan power, they suffice to mark with exactness their locality ; and the importance attached to this settlement is manifested in the title of ' Sambhari Rao,' maintained by Prithiraj, the descendant of Manika Rae, even when emperor of all Northern India.

Manika Rae, whom we may consider as the founder of the Chauhans of the north, recovered Ajmer. He had a numerous progeny, who established many petty dynasties throughout Western Rajwara, giving birth to various tribes, which are spread even to the Indus. Khichi, Hara (hada),Dhanetiya, Mohil, Nirwana and Bhadauria are all descended from him.^ The Khichis were established in the remote Duab, called Sind-Sagar, comprising all the tract between the Behat and the Sind, a space of sixty-eight coss, whose capital was Khichpur-Patan. The Haras obtained or founded Asi (Hansi) in Hariana ; while another tribe held Gualkund, the celebrated Golkonda, now Haidarabad, and when thence expelled, regained Asir. The Mohils had the tracts round Nagor.Bhadaurias had an appanage on the Chanibal, in a tract which bears tltei name, and is still subject to them. The Dhanetiyas settled at Shahabad. Another branch fixed at Nadol, but never changed the name of Chauhan.

The Shahabad Fort, built by Chauhan Vanshi Dhanetiya Rajput in 1521, is located amidst a dense forest area. There is a topkhana or artillery and the old Burudkhana Temple inside this fort.It also includes over 18 cannons with one of the cannons being 19 ft long. The two sides of the fort are covered with a pond and high mountains, whereas the other two sides are surrounded by the Kundakoh Valley.

The Remainder of the Dhanetiya Remain in Shahabad.