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

Maharana Kumbha.
mal, the thought obtrudes itself as to why
notwithstanding the possession of the noble
qualities with which nature richly endowed
him, Kumbha, who was ever successful
in all his undertakings—successful not only
in defending his kingdom against the united
efforts of the most powerful kings of his time;
successful in punishing the enemies of his
country and his religion—failed to restore
Rajput supremacy in Upper India, and free
Western India from the tyranny and the
domination of the Afghan adventurers who
had usurped supreme power in some of those
parts, by crushing once for all his enemies;
eminently fitted as he was to do so.
The answer is writ large on every
page of Indian history. The Hindus had,
owing to various causes, the principal
one being the rise amongst them of certain
schools of religious thought, lost the one
quality necessary to achieve political success.
Maharana Kumbha, and after him, Maharana
Sanga, both failed to save India from being
subjected to foreign domination, because of
the lack of that quality. That quality is
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