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

Maharana Kumbha.

to Mewar and to restore their lands.
The Maharana granted the request.¹ The
Maharana, from that day, gave up repeating
those words; but his mind had been affected,
and he was sometimes incoherent in his talk.
While he was in this state of mind, and was
one day seated on the edge of a masonry
tank near the temple of Mamadeva (Kumbha-
swami) to the north east of Katargarh in
Kumbhalmer, which he had built ten years
before, his eldest son Udai Singh, stole up
to him and treacherously stabbed him to
death.²

The motive for this wicked deed might
be the fear that the banished prince Rai Mal
might be restored to favour and possibly block
the miscreant's way to the throne; or, Kumbhá's
enemies, unable to overcome him by force, put
up his son to do the wicked deed, promising
him assistance to get the throne, as was done
in the case of Maharaja Ajit Singh of Marwar
in the 18th century, when his son, Abhay
Singh, was persuaded to get his father mur-

¹ Vir Vinod, Vol. I, p. 333.
² Vir Vinod, Vol. I, p. 333.
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