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

Maharana Kumbha.
Sultan of Delhi at Badnor, and the Sultan
of Gujrat at Mandalgarh.¹ He liberated
Tristhali² (Benares, Allahabad and Gaya)
from the Mussalmans and the hill fort of
Vardhan³ from the Meds (Mers). Col. Tod
says: "He carried the war to Gaya, and in
driving the barbarian from this sacred place,
lost his life."⁴
It was about this time, the close of the
fourteenth century A.D., that the Rathods,
who under their leader Sihaji, had come in
the thirteenth century A.D., from the United
Provinces, and settled in Pali (Marwar), began
to take root in the congenial soil of this
hospitable region, and throw out ramifications
all round. One branch had settled in Mālāni,
where the famous warrior, Mallinath ruled.
¹ Ferishta (Vol. IV, p. 6) says that Sultan Muzaffar Shah
of Gujrat invaded Mandalgarh in A.D. 1396, but returned with-
out conquering it, as he was given gold and jewels. The Mussal-
man historians generally describe defeats of Mussalman kings
by saying that the Sultan returned owing to the rainy season
having set in, or, because he was given gold and jewels.
Gujrat histories make no mention of this expedition against
Mandalgarh. The Mirati Sikandari mentions Māndu by mis-
take for Mandalgarh—Bayley's Gujrat, p. 77.
² Maharana Kumbha's Kumbhalgarh Inscription, V. 207
(Also Chitorgarh Kirtisthambha Inscription, V. 3).
³ Ibid, V. 36.
⁴ Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, Vol. 1, p. 275.
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