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

Maharana Kumbha.
Sultan of Gujrat, that the Maharana refused
to give up Abu after the Sultan's army
returned to Ahmedabad, and that Lakha
thereupon attacked the Maharana and recover-
ed Abu from him. This can not be true, for
there is incontestable evidence that the Maha-
rana had taken possession of Abu before A.D.
1437, while Maharao Lakha came to the
throne of Sirohi only in A.D. 1451.¹ It also
appears from Mirati Sikandari, that the
Maharana was in possession of Abu in A.D.
1456 and that Abu had been taken by Kumbha
by force of arms from Sirohi. The Mirati
Sikandari says that when Sultan Qutbuddin
of Gujrat invaded the Maharana's dominions
in A.D. 1456 in order to avenge his defeat at
Nagor by Maharana Kumbha, the Maharao of
Sirohi met the Sultan on the way and offered
him his services and requested him to wrest
the fort of Abu from the Maharana and
restore it to the Maharao, as it was the
hereditary seat of the Rajas of Sirohi, and
the Maharana had forcibly deprived the
Maharao of it. The Sultan detached an army
under Malik Shaaban Imadul Mulk to attack
¹ Gauri Shanker Ojha's History of Sirohi, p. 197.
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