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

Maharana Kumbha.
mously ordered his army to withdraw from
their stations and let Aurangzeb escape.¹ The
Maharana's generosity did not stop here.
When the Emperor was out of danger, the
Maharana sent him his favourite Circassian
wife, whom the Maharana had captured,
accompanied by a chosen escort only request-
ing that the Emperor would in return refrain
from destroying cows which might still be
left in the plains. But for this act of foolish
generosity, the whole history of India would
have been changed and the country spared all
the wars in the Deccan, in Rajputana and
the Punjab, that filled the last thirty years of
Aurangzeb's reign
Well does Col. Tod exclaim :—"But for
repeated instances of an ill judged humanity,
the throne of the Mughals might have been
completely overturned." ²
The time after Mahmud's defeat was very
usefully employed by the Maharana in erecting
several forts and generally strengthening the
defences of his country.
¹ Orme quoted in full in Tod's Annals and Antiquities
of Rajasthan, Vol. I, p. 383, footnote.
² Tod's Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, Vol. I,
p. 379.
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