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

Maharana Kumbha.
body serve as a bajot ¹ to sit on at the
ceremony.
Cháchá and Maira had captured 500
girls from the villages round about the
Pai Hills and kept them in this stronghold.
Ran Mal married these girls there to spears,
intending to give them to his Rathod follow-
ers. The Maharana's uncle, Raghávadeva, the
brother of Chondá, did not like this proposal,
and on arriving at Delwara removed the
maids to his own camp. This added fuel
to the fire of jealousy already existing between
Rághavadeva and Ran Mal.
Rao Ran Mal preferring the fertile plateau
of Mewar to the arid desert of Marwar took
up his residence at Chitor, and surrounded
himself and the Maharana with Rathods, and
began to take a prominent part in the
administration of Mewar. Rághavadeva, who
had been left by his elder brother Chondá, on
his departure from Chitor during the reign of
the late Maharana Mokal to watch over the
safety of the Maharana during his minority,
¹ A round or square wooden seat to squat upon.
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