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

Maharana Kumbha.
temples at Ajāhari, Sālera and Pindarvataka,
modern Pindavārā. Local tradition has it
that the temple was built by two brothers
Dhanna (corruption of Dharnaka)¹ and Ratna
of the Porvad caste and residents of Nāndiya
in the Sirohi State. They left Nandiya and
settled at Mālgad which was situated to the
south of Ranpur, high upon a hill. They
erected a temple at Mādadá, which came to be
known as Ranpur, because the land occupied
by the temple was purchased by them from
Maharana Kumbha, who stipulated that the
place should bear his name, Ran being an
abbreviation of Rana.
The temple was designed by one Dipaka or
Dipa, a Sompura Brahmin of Mundātā in
the following circumstances. One night at
Maglad, Dhanna saw a celestial car in his
dream. He called several Sompuras (architects)
and gave them a description of it, and asked
them to produce plans thereof. All were reject-
ed except that of Dipa as it was exactly of the
type of the celestial car, Dhanna had seen
¹ A descendant of Ratna, 14 generations removed from
him, named Nath Mal Sah was living in 1907 A D. in Ghanerav,
to which town, Dhanna and Ratna had moved.
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