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

Maharana Kumbha.
came near Chitor and inflicted a severe defeat
on him which compelled him to return to
Mandu. Ferishta says (Vol. IV, page 222)
that the Sultan sent Prince Gayasuddin to
take Ranthambhor and himself started to
attack Chitor, and that leaving Mansur-ul-Mulk
to lay waste the district of Mandsaur, himself
advanced and threatened to appoint his own
governor there and found a town and
named it Khiljipur. Thereupon the'Maharana
tendered submission, and the Sultan seeing the
approach of the rainy weather, returned to
Mandu with some gold. Instead of saying
that the Sultan returned discomfited and
defeated, Ferishta puts it nicely and says that
Sultan owing to the approach of the rains
returned after taking some gold!
About this time (1454 A.D.) the state of
affairs at Ajmer drew the Sultan's attention to
it. This important city—"the heart of Raj-
putana"—is a place of the greatest strategical
importance in Upper India. It stands at the
summit of the plateau which marks the highest
elevation on the plains of Hindustan. Its politi-
cal importance is proved by the fact that every
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