महाराणा सांगा: द हिन्दूपत (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य एवं खानवा महायुद्ध इतिहास)

Maharana Sāngā.
again, administered poison to him. The
heroic spirit of the great man would not so
easily give in, and fought with the malady
for a time. At last the poison prevailed and
Sāngā breathed his last at Baswa in Baisakh¹
Sud, S. 1584, after a reign of 21 years 5
months and 9 days. Thus ended the
glorious life of the great man who was one
of the greatest sovereigns that have ever
ruled in Rajputana. The lesser men who
were about him in his last days, purchased
"by regicide, inglorious ease and safety,
in preference to privations and dangers, and
to emulating the manly constancy of their
prince, who resolved to make heavens his
canopy till his foe was crushed,—a determina-
tion which was pursued with the most
resolute perseverance by some of his gallant
successors."²
Maharana Sāngā was of middle stature
but of great muscular strength, fair in com-
plexion, with unusually large eyes. He
¹ Chaturkula Charitra p. 27 gives the date as Magh
Sud 9th, S. 1584.
² Tod's Rajasthan, Vol. I, p. 307.
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