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

Maharana Kumbha.
massive low columns, resting on a sculptured
panneled parapet, and sustaining the roof of
each story, which being very low, admitted
but a broken light to break the pervading
gloom."¹
In the central open space of the fort, on
a conical hillock, stands the inner fort of
Katárgarh. It is crowned with a palace called
the Jháli-ká-Máliá or the palace of the Jháli
queen.
There are seven gates leading up to the
fort. The principal (exterior) one, called the
Hanumán Pol, from the image of the god
Hanuman which with the gates was brought
by Kumbhá from Mandor² and set up there,
faces the south at the head of a road which
winds gradually up through the gorge from the
town of Kailwara at its base—a place of great
historical interest. Between Kailwara and
the Hanumán Pol there are two gates, the first
being Aret Pol, or barrier thrown across the
first narrow ascent about a mile from Kail-
¹ Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, Vol. I, pp. 670-71.
² Kumbhalgarh Inscription, v. 3.
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