The character of Baahubali has uncanny similarities with the stories related to celebrated Mewar king Maharana Pratap. It seems that Baahubali has captured the Maharana Pratap's dynasty more than the original king himself.
Baahubali's birth in a cave and escape to safety after birth seems to have been picked up from an early story of the lineage that Maharana Pratap was to have belonged to. It dates back to an incident of around 525 AD, when one of the wives of the Rana of Mewar escaped after the fall of Balabhi. She took refuge with some locals and delivered a boy in a cave.
The boy got the name Goh or cave born. His descendents became Guhilot or Gahlot. Maharana Pratap is said to be from the same dynasty.
The story of Baahubali being raised by forest people or tribal community is also similar to that of Maharana Pratap. Historical annals have it that Rani Dheer Bai preferred her son from Rana Udai Singh to be the next king of Mewar.
Rani Dheer Bai is said to have got Maharana Pratap sent to live with villagers in the outskirts of Chittorgarh. Pratap grew in the company of ordinary folks away from the Royal comfort.
Rana Udai Singh later proclaimed Jagmahal - the son of Rani Dheer Bai - as his successor but the seniors in the Royal court were in favour of Pratap, who was coronated as the Maharana at a place away from the capital Chittorgarh.
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