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

FOREWORD.
The first edition of this book was published in
1917 A.D. The present work is practically a new book:
many new chapters have been added, and old chapters
have been re-written and enlarged.
The accounts of the life and times of Maharana
Kumbhakarana of Mewar and his immediate predeces-
sors given in this book, are based principally on old ins-
criptions and contemporary records.
The more important of the inscriptions of Maharana
Kumbha's time are described in Chapter XV; but
for facility of reference, I have given in the Appendix
(pp. 205-224) the full text of the Ranpur Chaumukha
Temple Inscription, and all portions of (a) the Kumbhal-
garh, (b) the Chitorgah Kirtisthambha, (c) the Shringi-
rishi, (d) the Eklingji Temple and (e) the Samiddeshwar
Temple Inscriptions, and (f) the Eklinga Mahatmya,
to which references have been made in the various
chapters of the book. Many of these are being published
for the first time.
In writing this book, I have left untapped no source
of information available at the present time. I have
examined, in the light of inscriptions, coins and contem-
porary records, the accounts given in the Persian and
Hindi histories of the events that occurred during the
period with which the book deals. The following pages
give an accurate account of the life of Maharana
Kumbha as disclosed by these sources of information.