Who is known as the Panna Dhai of Marwar?

Rajasthani history honours certain royal wet-nurses (dhai maa) with an honorific comparing them to Panna Dhai of Mewar, when they sacrificed their own child to save an infant prince and preserve the ruling line.

When Maharaja Jaswant Singh of Marwar died in 1678 leaving no acknowledged heir at court, Aurangzeb took control of Marwar and sought to raise or eliminate the posthumously born prince, Ajit Singh, in Delhi. Loyalists led by Durgadas Rathore smuggled the infant prince out of Aurangzeb's custody; Gora Dhai, his caretaker, gave up her own son in his place — who was then taken into Aurangzeb's custody and raised there — enabling Ajit Singh's rescue and his eventual restoration to the throne of Marwar two decades later.

• Bala Dhai: no independent historical account links this name to the Ajit Singh rescue or any comparable sacrifice in Marwar's history.

• Biji Dhai: not documented in Rajasthan history as a caretaker associated with this episode or title.

• Lachha Dhai: not recorded in Rajasthan history as bearing the "Panna Dhai of Marwar" title.

For this act of sacrifice paralleling Panna Dhai of Mewar's rescue of Udai Singh II, Gora Dhai is remembered as the Panna Dhai of Marwar.