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

Maharana Kumbha.
the year 1297 A.D., when Sultan Ala-ud-din
Khilji of Delhi sent Ulugh Khan to conquer
it. The Chalukyas had succeeded the Cháurá
Rajputs, who had founded Anhilwara Pātan,
the celebrated Capital of Gujrat. The monar-
chy of Gujrat reached the height of its
magnificence and power under the Solanki
monarchs Siddhráj Jaisingh and Kumár Pál
(1094-1175 A.D.), when it triumphed over
Malwa, conquered Chitor and defeated the
Chauhān King Ânnādeva of Ajmer.
Gujrat remained a tributary province of
Delhi from A.D. 1297 to the year A.D. 1396,
when the Viceroy, Zafar Khan, proclaimed
his independence and mounted the throne of
Gujrat¹ at Birpur, under the title of Muzaffar
Shah. Zafar Khan was originally a Hindu
named Sādharan of the Tánk tribe (Khatri),
and after his conversion to Islam became the
head of the kitchen to Sultan Firoz Shah
Tughlaq who eventually appointed him
Governor of Gujrat in place of the Farhatul-
mulk. Muzaffar Shah was deposed by his son
Tatarkhan with the aid of his uncle Shams-
¹ Lane Pool's Muhammadan Dynasties of India, p. 313.
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