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

CHAPTER V.
RISE AND FALL OF THE KINGDOMS OF
GUJRAT AND MALWA.
THE invasion of India by Timur, the flight
of Muhammad Tughlaq from Delhi, and the
conquest and sack of that city by the invader
in A.D. 1398, destroyed the power of the
Tughlaq Sultans of Delhi. After Timur's
departure to Turkistan, Muhammad Tughlaq
returned to Delhi, but he had lost all power
and prestige, and was a Sultan more in name
than in reality. In the opening years of the
fifteenth century, Malwa and Gujrat the
erstwhile viceroyalties of Delhi threw off
their allegiance and declared their indepen-
dence. Malwa and Gujrat became powerful
monarchies, and it was these kingdoms, and
the principality of Nagor, then in the heyday
of their power and prosperity, that Maharana
Kumbhá, about the middle of the fifteenth
century, fought and defeated.
GUJRAT.
Gujrat had been under the rule of the
Baghelā branch of the Chalukya Rajputs till
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