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

Maharana Kumbha.
in no small measure due to the immensely
strengthened defences of Mewar, effected by
the foresight and wisdom of Maharana Kumbha.
Kumbha was in every respect, the equal of
Sāngā, and in some respects, his superior. If
Kumbha or Sānga's elder brother Prithviraj,
had been in Sanga's place to lead the Indian
opposition to Babur, Babur would, in all
probability, have ended his days in Kabul. If
Kumbhā is not so well known to readers of
history, it is because important Persian histories
which began to be written only with the
advent of the Moghals (Turks) in India have
given little attention to events that occurred
before Babur came to this country. And the
English histories, which are based entirely on
Persian histories, only repeat what the latter
have recorded. Sāngā's fame rests chiefly on
the accounts given of his character and his ex-
ploits by the memoirs of Babur and Humāyun,
and the histories written by writers who
hovered round the Moghal Court. Kumbha
has not had that advantage.
The Rajputs had produced men as great
and as remarkable as Kumbha, before the latter
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