महाराणा कुम्भा (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य के अद्वितीय विजेता, निर्माता व विद्वान्)

Maharana Kumbha.
Bhārmali, the queen's maid, one even-
ing in Asárh, S. 1495 (1438 A.D.) plied the
Rao with liquor. When the old chief was
drunk, Bhármali, who had been compelled to
his embrace, tied him well to the bed with the
big turban he wore. The Rao was only roused
to a sense of his danger when Máhpá Panwár,
Ekká son of Cháchá, and others arrived. In
his rage, by a sudden desperate movement he
got on his legs with the pallet behind him,
and roared like a caged lion unable to free
himself from the meshes of the turban that
tied him to the pallet. Finding all arms re-
moved, he got hold of a brass lotá, and with
this he killed 3 of his 17 assailants ere he was
killed by a shot from a matchlock.¹ Ran Mal
was of herculean build. His gigantic stature
and the force of his blow were well known in
Rajputana. Máhpá fled as soon as Ran Mal got
on his feet. The other Rathods in the fort-
ress, including Randhir, brother of Ran Mal,
Sattá Bhati, son of Lunkaran, and Randhir
¹ Vir Vinod, Vol. I, p. 322. Tod's Rajasthan, Vol. I,
p. 280 Nainsi's khyat (p. 28-29) gives a slightly different
account.
The Jodhpur khyat gives A. D. 1444, as the year of
Ran Mal's murder.
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