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

Maharana Kumbha.
in the 186th verse of the Prasasti of the Jaya
Sthambha took place on Magh Sud, 10th,
Pushya Nakshatra V. S. 1505 (A.D. 1449).¹
As it took 6 years to complete the building
from the third to the topmost storey it may
fairly be inferred that the foundations of the
Jaya Sthambha must have been laid 2 years
before the completion of the second storey i.e.
in 1440 A.D.
Describing it, Mr. Fergusson says : “A
pillar of victory like that of Trajan at Rome,
but in infinitely better taste as an architec-
tural object than the Roman example.”²
Colonel James Tod³ thus describes it :
“The only thing in India to compare with
this is the Kootab Minar at Delhi, but though
much higher, it is of a very inferior character.
This column is one hundred and twenty feet
in height; the breadth of each face at the base
is thirty-five feet, and at the summit, immedi-
ately under the cupola, seventeen feet and a
half. It stands on an ample terrace, forty-
¹ Kirtisthambha (Tower of Victory) Inscription, V. 185,
² History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, page 253.
³ Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, Vol. II., page 761.
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