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

Maharana Kumbha.
effigies conveys a finer lesson to the mind
than if they were enshrined in marble."¹
At Abu, Kumbha built the temple of
Kumbhaswámi (which still stands) and a
large tank named, Ramakund, in front of it.²
He excavated four other tanks there.² He
remitted the pilgrim tax levied at Abu.²
KUMBHALGARH.¹
The highest monument of Kumbha's
military and constructive genius, however, is
the wonderful fortress of Kumbhalgarh or
Kumbhalmer, second to none in strategical
importance or historical renown. It was to
this impregnable fortress that the Maharanas
of Mewar always turned their eyes, when
Udaipur became unsafe and Chitor unten-
able. It is to Kumbhalmer that the Maha-
ranas, from Udai Singh to Ráj Singh, sent
the royal households, when the entire might
of the Moghal Empire was used for the des-
truction of their country. It was the ambition
¹ Tod's Travels in Western India, pp. 95-96.
² Kumbha's Chitorgarh Kirtisthambha Inscription (Vs. 12
and 13). Near the Ramakund, stands a statue of the Parmar
king Dhārāvarsha armed with a bow, and three stone buffaloes.
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