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

Maharana Kumbha.
sway in Mewar. Rathods were to be seen
everywhere in the kingdom, and all positions
of confidence and trust as well as those of
political and military importance, were bestow-
ed on them. This naturally excited the
apprehensions of the nobles and Sardárs of
Mewar. One day, Mahpá plainly told the
Maharana that the Rathods were aiming at the
throne of Mewar; but the Maharana, aware
of his enmity towards Ráo Ran Mal, gave no
heed to this warning. Ekká, Cháchá's son,
a few days later, while shampooing the Maha-
rana, who was asleep, began to weep. His
tears falling hot on the feet of the Maharana
woke him, and on being asked the cause of his
distress, he repeated the tale Mahpá had told.¹
The Maharana now began to be a little
suspicious of Ran Mal. The Maharana's
dhaya ² (wet nurse) became fearful of the
future, and bursting with indignation at the
ascendency of the Rathods, demanded of the
Rana's grandmother, " if her kin was to
defraud her own grandchild of his inheritance."
¹ Vir Vinod, Vol. I, p. 321. Nainsi's Khyat, p. 28.
² The dhaya is an important person in a Rajput
household.
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