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

Maharana Kumbha.
Prithirājaji, i. e., Prithviraj, and the horse,
Sāhanadivā. Immediately on his right is Tárádê
(Tara Devi) and further Bai Pāmāde. On his
left also there are two figures, the names of
which are, however, gone. Memorial stones
mark the places where ladies became Sati
on the funeral pyres of their husbands,
and this particular stone commemorates the
fact that Taradé (Tara Devi) and Pamade be-
came Sati on the death of prince Prithviraj.
Near the Māmādeva Temple, Maharana
Kumbha built a large Kunda (reservoir of
water), at the edge of which Kumbha was
saying his prayers when he was treacherously
stabbed by his son, Udá the Hatiáro
(parricide). Kumbhá built the Kumbhaswami
Temple in the fort and constructed a lake
by it, and laid out a garden.¹
CHITORGARH.
Kumbha strengthened the defences² of
¹ Kumbhalgarh Inscription, verses 130, 131 and 143,
² The Chitorgarh Kīrtisthambha Inscription, verse 26.
Verse 183 says that in Kartik S. 1507 (A.D. 1450) Kumbha
built a new bastion with battlements. The architect employed
by Maharana Kumbha in Chitor was Nātha, brother of
Mandana, who had built Kumbhalgarh, vide, p. 38.—S. R.
Bhandarkar's Report of a Tour in Rajputana etc. 1907.
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