Raja Samokhan Singh was the ruler of the city and principality of Kishangarh in present-day Rajasthan.
[3] The Mughal Emperor Akbar managed to get Miyan Tansen to his court, but he wanted an instrumentalist for his durbar.
[4] Samokhan Singh knew the political desires of Akbar, he refused by saying that he used to play Vina for God.
Akbar never expected such an answer, he got furious and asked the Faujdar of Ajmer to get Samokhan Singh to terms.
His grandson, Mishri Singh who would be known as Naubat Khan later in his life was captured and put under house arrest.