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

Maharana Kumbha.
that the Mussalmans had begun to kill cows
in Nagor. To punish the wrong doers, he
started with fifty thousand horsemen to
attack Nagor. After putting thousands of
Mussalmans to the sword, he captured the
fort and carried away a number of elephants,
horses and other valuables as spoils of war.
The Khan of Nagor fled to the Court of the
Sultan of Ahmedabad.¹
After a few months, the Sultan of Gujrat
invaded Sirohi with a large army. The
Maharao of Sirohi retired to the hills of
Kumbhalgarh. The Gujrat army after plun-
dering Sirohi, went after the Maharao. The
Maharana hearing of this, advanced with his
Rajputs and defeated the Sultan, who fled
to his capital.²
Smarting under the disgrace of this fresh
defeat, Sultan Qutb-ud-din collected a power-
¹ Ferishta (Vol. IV, p. 43) says that as Qutb-ud-din,
Sultan of Gujrat was, at the time engaged in a course of
debauchery, the prime minister Imadulmulk collecting an
army made one march from Ahmedabad but had to stay there
for a month to prepare equipments. Hearing, however, that
the Maharana had returned to Chitor the Gujrat army too
returned to Ahmedabad.
² Ferishta says that the Sultan finding Kumbhalgarh
impregnable, returned to his capital—Vol. IV, p. 43.
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