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

Maharana Kumbha.
nāthji in the town of Nāgadā. It is trans-
cribed in The Bhāvanagar Inscriptions, page
112. It records the erection of the image of
Sāntināth by Sāh Sārang in the temple during
the time of Maharana Kumbhā.
4. The celebrated Rānpur Temple Inscrip-
tion of V. S. 1496 (1439 A.D.). This inscrip-
tion and an English translation of it were first
published by Mr. Peter Peterson in his
Bhāvanagar Inscriptions. Dr. D. R. Bhandar-
kar, in his excellent article on the Ranpur
Temple, contributed to the Annual Report
of the Archæological Survey of India for
1907-8, re-translates the inscription (p. 216).
The inscription is engraved on a stone built
up in a pillar to the left of the entrance
into the Chaumukha Temple at Rānpur,
about 6 miles from Sadadi in the Jodhpur
State. The stone, a slab of white marble, mea-
sures 3'.3" by 1'.1', and contains 47 lines of Sans-
krit prose. It is well preserved. The inscription
after stating that Sri Bappa was supreme ruler
of Mewar in V. S. 1496, gives the genealogy
of the Kings of Mewar upto Maharana Kumbha-
karan, incidentally mentioning Rana Bhuvana
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