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

Maharana Kumbha.

appeared on the scene. The great Chauhan
Emperor Visaldeva,¹ the uncle of the famous
Emperor Prithviraj, who flourished in the
12th century of the Christian era, besides
being a great sovereign and a great military
commander, was also a great scholar. He
conquered the whole of Upper India, carried
his arms right up to the Himalayas, making
Delhi a tributary to Ajmer, which then became
the capital of the Indian empire. In his inscrip-
tion on the famous Siwalik Pillar, originally
erected in Gurhwal by Emperor Asoka— who
according to Mr. H. W. Wells, the author of the
Outline of History, is the greatest monarch of
all times—and which now stands in the Firoz-
shah ka Kotla at Delhi, Emperor Visaldeva
states that he had freed Hindustan of all in-
vaders from the North West. He was not only
a great king and a great commander, but also a
scholar and a dramatist, as is proved by his
drama Harkeli Nātak, parts of which engrav-
ed on black basalt slabs, are preserved in the
Rajputana Museum, Ajmer.

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¹ For an account of Emperor Visaldeva, see my article on
him in the Vedic Magazine and Gurukul Samachar of Aswin,
V. S. 1969, Vol. IV, pp. 292-97, and my book, Ajmer : Historical
and Descriptive, page 154.

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