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

Maharana Kumbha.
their richer lands, blessed with plentiful
water, by barbarian hordes like the Sakas, the
Kushans, the Huns and lastly the Muhammadan
Turks and Afghans. The last of the Rajput
families which thus took shelter in the sands
of Rajastan, we know from authentic history,
were the Rathods of Kanauj, who after the
defeat and death of Jayachand came from the
Gangetic valley to the sands of Marwar."
Though the word shelter is used here, yet it
has no connection with the Pratihars of Mandor.
Mr. Vaidya simply says that the Rathods took
shelter in Rajputana from the inroads and
invasions of the Turks and the Afghans, by
emigrating from Kanauj to Marwar. He
nowhere says that the Pratihars of Mandor
actually gave or promised to give the immi-
grant Rathods any protection or help. As a
matter of fact historical records show that
during a pilgrimage of Sihaji to Pushkar, the
inhabitants of Bhinmal and Pali asked Sihaji
to settle in Pali and protect them from the
Muslim raids from Sindh and Nagor. Later he
describes the rise and fall of the Pratihars of
Kanauj including the branch at Mandor,
but does not say when and in what way
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