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

Maharana Kumbha.
of Oka Rani, his queen, so designated from
being of Oka Mandal, (Kathiawar) near the
Land's End of the Hindus. A small lake in
the keep is called Sāwan Bhādoon, and well
merits the name of the two chief months of
the monsoon; for, in the middle of June it is
yet full of water. On the most elevated knoll
to the east are the remains of an alarm tower
which still bears Kumbha's name. From this
point the eye, occasionally piercing the swift-
scudding clouds, has glimpses of the ruined
altars and palaces of the brave race who on
the spot whence I surveyed them, had fought
and bled in their defence."¹
A blending of all beauties, streams and dells,
Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine,
And chiefless castles, breathing stern farewells,
From gray, but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells."
An equestrian statue of Maharana Kumbha
with those of two other Maharanas and a
bigger one of the Purohit or the family priest
of Kumbha in a humble straw shed on the
descent from Achalgarh to Dilwara still
receive divine honours.
¹ Tod's Travels in Western India, p. 94.

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