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

Maharana Kumbha.
power aspiring to dominate the country has
first taken possession of it and used it as a
ladder to mount to political supremacy in
India. Its religious importance is due to the
existence of Pushkar, the King of Hindu
places of pilgrimage in its environs, and the
mausoleum of Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti
in the town. The death of Swami Dayanand
Saraswati at Ajmer, invests the place with
peculiar importance in the eyes of Reformed
Hinduism.¹
During the reign of Maharana Mokal,
Ráo Ran Mal of Mandor had wrested this
stronghold from the Sultans of Delhi and
restored it to Mewar. Acting on the advice of
pancholi Khemsi, Ran Mal sent him with a
picked force of Rathods to take Ajmer. Under
the pretence of conveying a daughter to the
Viceroy of Ajmer, he introduced his men into
that renowned fortress, the ancient stronghold
of the Chauháns, putting the Delhi garrison to
the sword. Salim Shah, the King of Multan,
who had gone on pilgrimage to Ajmer after
killing Chondá, father of Rao Ran Mal at
¹ See my "Ajmer: Historical and Descriptive" p. 23
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