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

Maharana Kumbha.
Nagor was also killed by the Rájputs. Khemsi
was rewarded with the grant of the township
of Khatoo, then lately captured from the
Káimkhanees.¹
In A. D. 1454, Mahmud Khilji having
received representations that all Muhammadan
religious practices had been forbidden in
Ajmer² by the Hindu governor of the place,
and receiving promises of help from its
Mussalman residents, undertook an expedition
against that city. Ajmer was in the posses-
sion of the Maharana and the Sultan did not
venture openly to invade it. He had recourse
to a ruse. Sending the bulk of his army
against Mandsaur to keep the Maharana's forces
engaged, he advanced and attacked Ajmer.
Gajádhar Singh, the governor of the fort of
Ajmer, defended the fort for four days, and
then, despising the foe's forces, he came out
and attacked the Sultan's army. He was
killed after performing deeds of valour and
slaying numbers of the enemy. As his men
were retiring into the fort, the Sultan's men
¹ The Jodhpur Khyat.
² Brigg's Ferishta, Vol. IV., page 222.
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