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

Maharana Kumbha.
TOWER OF VICTORY.
Kumbha's Jaya Sthambha (Tower of Vic-
tory), also called the Kīrtisthambha (Tower of
Fame) in Chitorgarh is another monument of
his genius and a great ornament to that far-
famed fortress.
This celebrated Tower of Victory was
erected to commemorate the victory which
Maharana Kumbha had obtained over Sultan
Mahmud Khilji I of Mandu in 1438 A.D., when
Mandu was conquered, and its Sultan brought
captive, and kept a prisoner in Chitor for 6
months.
An inscription¹ in the perforated window
in the second storey of the Tower of Victory
offering the obeisance of the architect Jaitra
and his two sons, Nāpā and Puñjā, to god
Samaddhishwar dated Phālgun Sud 5th, V. S.
1499 (A.D. 1442) shows that the second storey
was completed in that year. The Tower was
completed in A.D. 1449 ; for the consecration
ceremony of the Tower of Victory, as recorded
¹ Report for 1921 A. D. of the Rajputana Museum,
Ajmer, p. 4.
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