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

Maharana Kumbha.

hibiting the fracture, of Jasper. It is one
mass of sculpture; of which a better idea can-
not be conveyed than in the remark of those
who dwell about it, that it contains every
object known to their mythology.
The ninth khand or 'storey' which, as I have
stated, is seventeen feet and a half square, has
numerous columns supporting a vault in which
is sculptured Kanaya (Krishna) in the Rasman-
dala (celestial sphere), surrounded by the
gopis, or muses, each, holding a musical
instrument, and in a dancing attitude. Be-
neath this is a richly-carved scroll fringed
with the sarus, the phenicopteros of ornitho-
logy. Around this chamber had been arrang-
ed, on black marble tablets,¹ the whole

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¹ A copy of this and the Kumbhalgarh Inscription of
Rana Kumbha was taken by a pandit on Phagun Vadi 7th,
S 1735 (A.D. 1679), when five tablets of this, and one of the
Kumbhalgarh Inscriptions were in existence. Unfortunately
only two tablets of this former inscription are now to be
found, but two more tablets and a fragment of the third of
the Kumbhalgarh Inscription have been recovered. The
Kumbhalgarh Inscription originally consisted of five tablets
and the Chitorgarh of seven or more. The Chitorgarh In-
scription states that it was completed on Monday the Margshir
Vadi 5th, S 1517 and Saka year 1382 (A.D. 1460). The author
of the inscription was a Brahman named Atri, who was well
versed in Logic, Vedanta, Veda, Mimansa and Sahitya. He
was the son of Keshava, called Jhoting, and grandson of
Narahari and great grandson of Somanath of the Bhrigu
family. Atri having died, the inscription was completed by his
son Mahesh, a poet. The Maharana gave him as reward, two
elephants, two chanwars with gold handles, and a white
umbrella (छत्र).

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