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

Maharana Kumbha.
Rai Mal mustered up courage and asked the
Maharana as to why he repeated those words
so often. The Maharana got angry with
Rai Mal and ordered that he be banished from
Mewar. Rai Mal went away to Idar, as he
had been married to the daughter of Bhān,
younger brother of Raja Naraindas of that
place. No one now dared expostulate with
the Maharana.
It is said that an astrologer had told
Maharana Kumbha that he would die by the
hand of a Charan,¹ whereupon the Maharana
expelled the whole of the Charan community
from Mewar and confiscated their lands.
One of them, however, in the guise of a
Rajput had remained with a Rajput Sardar;
and he now told the Sardar that he under-
stood the reason why the Maharana repeated
those words, and that he could make the
Maharana stop repeating them. The Sardar .
took him to the Maharana and introduced
him as a relation of his. The Maharana, as
was his habit, repeated कामधेनु तंडव करिय,
¹ A community, the members of which write poetry,
are constant companions of the Rajputs, and sing their
brave deeds.
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