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

Maharana Kumbha.
defeated him, drove him back to Mandu.
For about 10 years after this defeat, Mahmud
Khilji did not venture to take the offensive
against the Maharana.
Ferishta, in conformity with the practice
of Persian historians, who ignore or try to
whitewash defeats and unfavourable issues,
says (Vol. IV, p. 210) that the Sultan returned
after taking Nazrana. This is obviously far
from true. For, had the Sultan obtained a
victory and concluded peace after receiving
Nazrana, why should he have, as stated by
Ferishta himself (Vol. IV, p. 215) sent Taj Khan
with eight thousand cavalry and 20 elephants
to attack Chitor without any cause whatever
from Bayana, where he had gone immediately
after his return to Mandu. Had the Sultan
achieved a victory, we should not have found
him (as will be seen later) asking the King of
Gujrat for help, and proposing to him when that
Sultan too had been defeated by the Maharana,
an offensive alliance against the Maharana.
In 1454 A.D., however, Sultan Mahmud
Khilji made another attempt to attack Chitor,
but the Maharana attacked him before he
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