महाराणा सांगा: द हिन्दूपत (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य एवं खानवा महायुद्ध इतिहास)

Maharana Sāngā.
support of the neighbouring chiefs. He
gave Abu to the Deora chief of Sirohi to
win him to his side, and bribed Rao Jodha
of Marwar with the celebrated fortress of
Taragarh (Ajmer) to abstain from molesting
him. The deference thus shown by Uda to
the Deoras and the Rāthors, however, failed
to win their regard or support. Rao Jodha's
son Duda, who had established himself at
Merta in Baisakh of S. 1519 (A.D. 1462),
took possession of the prosperous town of
Sambhar, driving out the Maharana's gar-
rison from the place. The chiefs and the
people of Mewar declined to have such a
blood-stained monster as their king, and he
was driven from the throne¹ by the people
who recalled Udai Singh's younger brother
Rai Mal from Idar, ² and by common
¹ The following couplet is current in Mewar :—
उदा बाप न मारजे * लिखियो लाभे राज ।
देश बसायो रायमल * सया न एको काज ॥
Uda, you should not have killed your father.
Sovereignty comes if it is one's destiny. Rai Mal
populated the country; you gained absolutely nothing.
² Rai Mal, since his banishment by his father
Maharana Kumbha, had been living with his father-
in-law, the Raja of Idar.
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